{"id":195,"date":"2011-08-03T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/readmymind\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-08-03T04:32:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T04:32:05","slug":"facebook-gets-into-book-publishing-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/readmymind\/2011\/08\/facebook-gets-into-book-publishing-maybe.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gets into Book Publishing – Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, Mark Zuckerberg keeps insisting Facebook is not trying to take over the world through social media, but today Facebook just got into the publishing biz <\/a>-sort of. Facebook has acquired an ebook company, Push Pop Press. They creative interactive ebooks for iPads. Push Pop has already worked with the likes of Al Gore on a book and the company is looked at as being a start-upwith tremendous potential.<\/p>\n

Of course, Facebook has announced that “Facebook isn\u2019t planning to get into the digital book business, but some of the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook.”<\/p>\n

Hmm…Yes, I believe it will be integrated in a way that it will somehow \u00a0publish books<\/em>. Or help Facebook readers create books increasing the self-publishing trend. Or maybe they will create something that will rival the popularity of all those fan fiction sites.<\/p>\n

Would you read a book on Facebook? I mean, if it was something other than “Top Ways to Cheat on Farmville”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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