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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to launch a book club, book publishers were hoping the billions of Facebook users would translate into book sales. But the numbers are in,…
The first meeting of the Facebook book club was a little like Fight Club: nobody talked about it. Perhaps it was Zuckerberg’s choice of book—The End of Power by Moisés…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new book club, and it already has 80,000 members. Some people are hoping Facebook’s reach will make this a powerful tool akin to Oprah’s…
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