Like: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Creates Book Club

via Shelf Awareness

Giving new emphasis to the second syllable of the name of his company, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has created a kind of book club based on his intention to read a book every other week during 2015. Called A Year of Books, the group's emphasis is "on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies."

"I've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling," Zuckerberg wrote in a January 2 post. "Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books."

The first selection for A Year of Books is The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím (Basic Books). Zuckerberg called it "a book that explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations. The trend towards giving people more power is one I believe in deeply, and I'm looking forward to reading this book and exploring this in more detail."

Zuckerberg asked that people participate in the discussions only "if you've actually read the books and have relevant points to add. The group will be moderated to keep it focused." As of early this morning, the A Year of Books page was liked by nearly 130,000 people.

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