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Is Dennis Johnson was the copublisher of Melville House. Melba house is publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Mr. Johnson can whats the purpose of publishing something thats in the Public Domain . Well, for one thing its not readily available as a printed book, and we felt that that was an important format or to the end so that it could just circulate more widely, be more accessible to more people the more affordable to most people. We also felt that the addition of it that was issued by the government, which is a very low resolution pdf format was very difficult to read. Its not laid out and probably formatted like the book. Its just like a huge collection of manuscript pages. It is very difficult to read because its so low resolution but its difficult to search. Its almost impossible to search in fact. And so we wanted to make a better addition of that so that i do people really want to read that addition of the way would read a book, but its more useful to
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From you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Host and now joining us on booktv is Dennis Johnson who is the copublisher of Melville House. Melville house is publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Mr. Johnson, whats the purpose of publishing something thats in the Public Domain . Guest well, for one thing its not readily available as a print book, and we felt that that was an important format for it to be in so that it could just circulate more widely, be more accessible to more people, be more affordable and findable for most people. We also felt that the edition of it that was issued by the government which is a very low resolution pdf format was very difficult to read. You know, its not laid out and properly formatted like a book. Its just like a huge collection of manuscript pages, and its very difficult to read because its so low resolution. Its very difficult to search. Its almost impossible to searc