Can video save the book-publishing star?
 

*Source: News.com (http://news.com.com/Can+video+save+t...ag=nefd.lede)*
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What Oprah Winfrey did for novelists on television, Simon & Schuster is hoping to do with online videos.

Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corp., is planning to launch in early June an Internet video channel that will feature about 40 short videos of authors talking about their books and what gave them inspiration, as well as walking through the settings of their novels and explaining the context of their stories. The videos will be shown on a site called Bookvideos.tv. They will also be available at Simon & Schuster's site (http://www.simonsays.com/) and hosted on one or more major online video sites, the company said.

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