Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20141222 : vimarsana.com

After words airs every weekend on book tv at 10 p. M. Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday and at 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online. Go to booktv. Org and click on after words in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page computers to joining joining us on the tvs Dennis Johnson and co. Publisher of Melville House publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Mr. Johnson what is the purpose of publishing something that is in the Public Domain . Guest for one thing, it is and readily available as a printed book and we felt that was an important format to be in so that it could circulate more widely widely and be accessible to more people and affordable for most people. We also felt it was a very low resolution format that was very difficult to read. It is an plate insulated out and properly formatted like a book. Its just like a huge collection of manuscript pages and its very difficult to read because it is so resolution its difficult to search and almost impossible to search and so we wanted to make a better edition of back so i dont know if people really want to read that addition the way you would read a book but its more useful to have that further researchers and academics in things like that to have them more searchable in the addition edition of the book. Host how much will you be publishing and will there be editing and commentary . Guest we are publishing exactly what the government has released. The only the report is over 6,000 pages long but it hasnt been declassified. What has been declassified was in april and only released just this month was the summer report issued by the subcommittee and that came with an introduction. That will be included as well as the notes verifying all of the documents in the report. We are not amending anything else to it. We feel that it should just be the core document. It shouldnt be treated with any of her kind of apparatus that would be given giving any kind of a power to dilute the pure report. Host what goes into publishing a book like this where its already written but your organizing it i guess would be diverted to use . Guest we are trying to make it reasonable and as i said it was a low resolution and hard to scan, almost impossible in fact. Its low resolution with lots of corruption in the document. If you try to scan it and say there is a smudge come if i can be translated as another word and it might trigger their reputations into the deletions. So we have to had to take the document is basically the format it just to be able to lay it out as a proper book so that it would be more readable in addition to the government issue. Host introduction commentary . Guest as i say, this introduction came thats actually part of the summary to the finding of the committee written by senator Dianne Feinstein in the head and the head of the committee. Host have you published books like this before . Guest know, previously the government has taken the reports such as the 9 11 Committee Report or the investigation the senate did in the financial crisis and a financial crisis and it has awarded those books as if there were contracts to the larger publishers and gave them to report early so the report early so that they could lay out by the government and publish the books simultaneously that would lead to the document. I never quite understood why that was the loud. They wouldnt be given to one publisher or another. They belong to the people of the united states. The government didnt do that this time. Theyve been opposed to that. Meaning the production money to the publishers to do this. Senator feinstein seemed opposed we decided these documents must exist. Its christmas time and very hard to. They are already shipping the books and a target its hard to get onto trucks to be distributed. The printers are very busy that time of year we had to pull a lot of strings and ask a lot of favors. We had about five days of the executive staff and the team of the volunteers standing up around the clock to basically read transcribed the book and proofread and compared to the original to make sure we didnt get anything wrong. Lay it out and so it has been an amazing five days just trying to get it into the system at christmas time. Guest host is isnt being published as a paperback . Guest thats correct. It will be issued as a paperback and also as an ebook. Host the New York Times is reporting that your initial print will be about 50,000. Is that accurate . Guest it is accurate at the moment although we are just getting diluted with requests from the paris book the book not only large and small but from libraries and all kinds of academics who are contacting us and asking how quickly they can get the book and so it is looking right now like that number may have to go up. Host when will it be available . Guest december 30. We will have the book printed and in the warehouse on friday. It may start popping up a little bit before the 30th in the various independent bookstores but it will be fully distributed around the country and available on online retailers and the brick and mortar retailers and independent chains and you name it on december 30