Publisher pins blame on Assange
Published on Saturday 6 October 2012 12:00
... Canongate Books, which said Mr Assange had signed a contract to write a “part memoir, part manifesto”, made an operating loss of £368,367 compared with a profit of more than £1 million the previous year.
It said it had published some very good books but lost a
“significant amount of money on one title”. The publisher said that, despite spending over 50 hours taping material with a ghost writer, Mr Assange said he wanted to cancel the
contract ...
In a report, the company’s chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, said the loss was “largely attributable to Julian Assange’s failure to deliver the book he had contracted to produce, and we were unable to obtain repayment from him of Canongate’s substantial advance, which had to be written off”.
The advance is understood to be more than £500,000 ...
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/publisher-pins-blame-on-assange-1-2564633
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By the way, I had to notice the quote in your sigline. Here's another one: "A soldier is an idealist who claims to be a pragmatist."
Who said that? I mean, besides you just now. 
... I don't remember who the quote is from. I tried to google it to no effect. But in fact, I think I picked that up on Democratic Underground originally. So I guess I have to attribute it to "an unknown DUer".
