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New York Times to publish eBook on Wikileaks:
By siliconindia
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Friday, 28 January 2011, 00:08 IST
New York : New York Times (NYT) is set to publish its first eBook, titled 'Open Secrets: Wiki leaks, War and American Diplomacy' on January 31, which will sell for $5.99 through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Google's eBook store and Apple's iBook store.
Just 11 days before the launch of a physical copy on Wikileaks named 'The Gurdian's book on Wikileaks',NYT has planned to launch their eBook. NYT have been looking forward to grow the revenue in new digital business.
The Editor Bill Keller has announced that he had written an essay on its involvement with Wikileaks in eBook and also he added why they have decided to publish the U.S state department cables of war logs including 27 more new cables. The eBook will contain essays from Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd too.
It also explains the profiles of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, and Bradley Manning, who was suspected for supplying classified information and NYT's deteriorating relationship with Assange which is available as online preview.
It can be another way to profit and NYT has planned to charge for the access to its sites soon. The Editor had said that the eBook will be the latest example of exploiting the creative potential of the Web to deliver the world's best journalism in any format whatever the readers find easier to read.
But Wikileak gave a negative reaction towards the new launch of New York Times. It tweeted that this is a just another self serving smear of NYT where the facts are wrong from top to bottom, and it's a dark day for U.S journalism.