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WikiLeaks' Assange Writing Tell-All Book

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

All the attention WikiLeaks is attracting has pretty much destroyed the privacy its secretive founder has so carefully guarded. Now, Julian Assange is joining the din and writing his memoir. He told London's Sunday Times newspaper, quote: I don't want to write this book, but I have to. Assange will make roughly $1.3 million from deals with American publisher Alfred Knopf and a British publisher. And he says he'll use that money to keep WikiLeaks afloat, and cover his legal costs.

At the moment, Assange is contesting extradition to Sweden on accusations of sexual misconduct. He's now out on bail, and spending his time at an English manor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.