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Dec 29 2010 12:38 PM ET

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's autobiography confirmed by publisher

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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.

Also: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has sold his memoirs

Sep 22 2010 09:00 PM ET

'39 Clues' exclusive: New series from Scholastic will feature David Baldacci

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David-BaldacciTomorrow morning Scholastic will officially announce the second series of its smash hit 39 Clues franchise. (Movie rights first-10 book series, which has more than 8.5 million copies in print, have been snapped up DreamWorks, with Steven Spielberg the possible director.) The new seven-book series, The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers, kicks off on April 5, 2011 with Vespers Rising, written by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman and Jude Watson. In a surprise twist, Scholastic has hired David Baldacci will write the final book in the series, set to be released in March 2013.

In honor of the big announcement, Baldacci talked with us about how he got involved with the project and why he’s excited to write his first book for children.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you get involved with The 39 Clues project?
DAVID BALDACCI: I got a call over the summer from Scholastic, and actually first my agent and I talked to Scholastic and they said that they wanted me to write the last book in The 39 Clues series, and that’s how I first found out about it. I didn’t think long about it, it was actually a cool offer, and I thought that it’d be something different, something challenging, so I said that I’ll do it. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 16 2010 11:48 AM ET

Neil Gaiman auctions off Twitter follows and personal phone calls for charity

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Neil-GaimanImage Credit: Eric Fougere/VIP Images/CorbisNeil Gaiman recently took to his Twitter to announce his participation in TwitChange, the first ever celebrity Twitter auction. Pegged as “changing the world one tweet at a time,” TwitChange allows fans to bid on receiving tweets, retweets, and Twitter follows from their favorite celebrities. All proceeds of this charity auction go to aHomeInHaiti.org, which builds permanent housing for Haitian orphans.

While receiving a simple Twitter follow may not seem like a huge prize, being the lone literary selection thus far, Neil Gaiman announced via Twitter that the winner of his “mega package” auction will also win a one-on-one phone call with him, where he will read either a poem or a “short-short story.” No word on whether these readings will be penned specifically for the winner or if they will have been previously published. For those not willing to spend the big bucks necessary to win the Neil Gaiman mega package, there are other auctions for Twitter mentions, Twitter follows, and retweets from Neil himself. Just a couple of hours into the auction, the current bid of the mega package is $455, and the auction doesn’t end until September 25.

Sep 7 2010 02:43 PM ET

Bob Woodward Announces Title of his Obama Book

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Obamas-WarsSimon & Schuster announced today that Bob Woodward’s 16th book, Obama’s Wars, will be released on September 27. The book will concentrate not on the economy but on the president’s foreign policy. The 441-page investigative work will show Obama “making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism,” Simon & Schuster announced. An official with knowledge of the book says that Woodward finished writing three weeks ago and that the book will include little on the war in Iraq.

Since winning a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Watergate with fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, Woodward has remained an investigative force in Washington D.C., known for his access to top White House information. He wrote four best-sellers on the George W. Bush administration, focusing on foreign policy and the war on terror. As he did with those books, Woodward will draw upon internal memos, documents, and interviews with top sources–including President Obama–for this latest title.

The cover of Obama’s Wars was also unveiled in the Tuesday announcement, and prominently features a profile shot of Obama looking forward with a focused gaze, and key foreign policy players, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the bottom.

What do you think, Shelf-Lifers? Will you be reading Obama’s War?

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