Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of the Facebook, made a New Year’s resolution to read 2 books a month in 2015. He is inviting his 31 million Facebook friends to join him.
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ALEXANDRA ALTER
The announcement sent Mr. Naim’s publisher, Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus, scrambling over the weekend.
“We had no prior notice and learned about it at the same time as everybody else did,” said David Steinberger, president and chief executive of the Perseus Books Group. “Orders are pouring in.”Sarah Buhr
His crowd-sourced New Year’s resolutions post on Facebook prompted Zuck to start a book club this year. The club is so influential that the paperback version of the first book Zuck chose to read for the group,”The End of Power” has now sold out on Amazon.