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Sep 18 2007 12:00am EDT

Oprah-Endorsed 'If I Did It' In Second Printing

Nice work, Oprah. I'm sure your decision to devote an entire hour of your show to If I Did It had nothing at all to do with the book's out-of-the-gate success -- No. 2 on Amazon.com and a second printing of 50,000 copies, for a total, so far, of 200,000. (Okay, so O.J. Simpson's arrest for armed robbery over the weekend probably had something to do with it, too.)

I would say it's ironic, but that would imply that your claim of not wanting to promote such a despicable book was sincere.

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