12 January 2015
The Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made a New Year's resolution to read two books a month in 2015, and he's inviting his 31 million Facebook friends to join him.
Over the weekend, Mr. Zuckerberg created a Facebook page, "A Year of Books," where readers can follow along and discuss the books he's reading. He posted his first selection, "The End of Power," by Moises Naim, at close to midnight Eastern time on Jan. 2.
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."
