Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg launches book club and turns Venezuelan author into bestseller

Venezuelan author Moises Naim has always been well-known in the literary world, but he has now reached mass appeal thanks to “A Year of Books,” Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg's book club.

“Zuckerberg announced that as a New Year’s resolution, he would read a book every other week this year. He called his book club “A Year of Books.” And the first book he chose to read was Naim’s “The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why being In Charge Isn’t What It Used To be,” reports Fox News. “Soon after Zuckerberg’s announcement this past weekend, the Venezuela author’s book was out of stock on Amazon.com and had a sales ranking of No. 123. The book was listed among Amazon’s “movers & shakers” for books making the biggest gains on the best-seller list.”

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