Mark Zuckerberg's 'A Year in Books' selection 'The End of Power' sells out on Amazon within a day
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook book club looks set to rain cash on authors lucky enough to have their titles selected after the first suggestion of Moisés Naím’s ‘The End of Power’ sold out on Amazon within 24 hours.
As the book sold out, used copies shot up to exuberant prices as high as £51 on Amazon. However, the e-book remained at the price of £7.19 as it is physically impossible for digital copies to run out of stock.
Commenters in the group suggested a partnership between Facebook and Amazon cutting the price of the books to make them more accessible.
The Facebook founder, who created the group as part of a New Year’s Resolution after 50,000 of his 30 million followers provided him with suggestions, posted: "I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling. 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."
On ‘The End of Power’, he added: “[The book] explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organisations. 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.”
The book club was launched earlier this week with commenters claiming Zuckerberg’s group could reach the heights of US TV host Oprah Winfrey’s book club. It has 184,000 likes with thousands of users engaging in debate and suggesting their own titles to read.
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