A spokesperson for publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has confirmed reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will pen his autobiography. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Assange explained that he is writing the book to cover growing legal costs. “I don’t want to write this book, but I have to,” he told the Times. “I have already spent 200,000 pounds for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”
Assange went on to share that the book deal will bring in more than $1 million, although a Knopf spokesman has declined to comment on that figure. Assange previously told reporters that most of WikiLeaks’ money goes toward legal expenses and fighting off technical attacks. Assange is currently free on bail in England, and is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes.
While no publication date has been given at this time, a Knopf spokesman says that Assange is due to deliver the manuscript sometime in 2011. The title has not yet been made public.
Oh yeah, 200 pages of this guy saying how wonderful he is and how brilliant he is, and how he’s doing the world a service with his site when all he’s doing is promoting himself and his own ego. Yep, gonna be putting this book on the Amazon pre-order!
No offend, but because of the people as narrowminded as yourself there actually is so much information being kept from the eyes of the public.
And he is doing the world a service. In aworld where the real comodity is information, he us robin hood. Ill buy one. Hooray. Julian
he should keep his good work and he should make some more discloser of indian politics.
How can we get a copy of the book? if Amazon won’t sell it, and Mastercard and Paypall won’t process the payments and the BOA won’t accept payment?
I hope that traitor Bradley Manning gets a autographed copy.