[4] Winfrey appeared onstage to conclude the event, announcing that she would be producing two documentary series, as well launching a "book club" in partnership with Apple.
It is also a successor to Oprah's Book Club 2.0, a non-televised and irregularly-released online iteration of the reading series launched in 2012.
[8] Episodes are typically filmed in front of a live audience and feature an interview between Winfrey and the selected book's author.
[9] Winfrey's September 2019 pick of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates marked the first time in the Oprah Book Club's three iterations a book had been selected as a pick prior to its publication (in this case, one day prior).
[citation needed] Thus, all published editions of The Water Dancer currently in circulation feature an "Oprah's Book Club 2019" seal.