This will be the third but not necessarily the last stage in Julian Assange's attempts to resist extradition to Sweden. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 01, 2012
London: The Unauthorised Autobiography of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange could not drum up interest of readers, as the first three days of its arrival in the market have seen sales of just over 600 copies. It was the book the founder of WikiLeaks said was published to "screw" him for cash but despite huge publicity surrounding its release, it has become a sales flop. Titled 'Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography',...
12:04 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Washington: He laid bare the secrets of governments and corporations. But until now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fiercely fought demands for more transparency in his own personal and financial affairs. But a bizarre dispute between Assange and a Scottish publisher who last week released an "unauthorized" version of Assange's autobiography has prompted the WikiLeaks frontman to make public some of his own secrets. Late on Tuesday, WikiLeaks published a sheaf...
11:23 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi:WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has demanded that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati apologise for her attack on him and quipped that he would send her a range of the finest British footwear if she sends him a private jet. Assange's comment came in response to Mayawatis allegation that the Wikileaks founder had either gone mad or is working with her opponents. The WikiLeaks official account posted Assange's response on...
07:20 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New York:A British journalist's inside take on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being published in the US as an e-book "single." Digital publisher RosettaBooks announced on Wednesday that Heather Brooke's 'Assange Agonistes' can be downloaded for $ 1.99 through Amazon.com's Kindle Single program. The e-book is a 24,000-word, first person narrative based on Brooke's "The Revolution will be Digitised," coming out in Britain later this month. The full-length book does...
04:34 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New York: More leaks about the WikiLeaks founder will soon be published. The Cogito Media Group is releasing "Julian Assange — WikiLeaks: Warrior for Truth," an unauthorized biography by Sophie Radermecker and Valerie Guichaoua. Cogito announced Friday that the book will come out in March and feature "graphic testimony from the women that Swedish prosecutors plan to use" against him in their investigation of possible rape. Assange is wanted for...
01:16 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Davos: A former member of the group that created WikiLeaks has launched a rival website with the aim of giving whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill. Daniel Domscheit-Berg says the new platform called OpenLeaks will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet. He told reporters today that the site will begin testing in several weeks...
08:47 PM, Jan 28, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he's being forced into penning an autobiography to keep his organization from going under. New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Monday that it had struck a deal with the 39-year-old Australian to bring out his autobiography, whose publication date has yet to be determined. Assange, speaking to The Sunday Times, said the deal would bring in more than $1 million, with $800,000...
12:55 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New York: A former spokesman for WikiLeaks is ready to tell all. Crown Publishers announced that Daniel Domscheit-Berg, otherwise known as Daniel Schmitt, has a book coming out in February. The book is called "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website." Crown says it "will reveal the evolution, finances and inner tensions" of the organization that obtains and posts confidential government documents. Schmitt met...
12:12 PM, Dec 23, 2010
