It seems that you can't peruse the Internet, or open a newspaper, without seeing mention of Wikileaks. Hoping to capitalize on that fact, Random House's Crown division acquired world English rights to an insider tell-all about the controversial Web site by its former spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The book, Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website, is schedule for a February 15, 2011 release.
Crown struck the deal with German publisher Ullstein Buchverlage, which is releasing the book in Germany through its imprint, Econ Verlag. The book will now be published simultaneously in 14 countries on the 15th, including the U.K., France, Italy, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, and Korea.
Domscheit-Berg worked at Wikilieaks under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt and Crown says he was "the effective No. 2" at the company, and the organization's "most public face." The author will, RH continued, chart "the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower organization" and, finally, the circumstances that led to him to leave the company, among them the "increasing concentration of power by [the Web site's founder, Julian] Assange."
In December, Domscheit-Berg announced that he and a group of former Wikileaks staffers were launching a new whistleblower-style Web site, in the mold of Wikileaks, called Openleaks.org, which is set to go live in 2011.
