Shelf Awareness
A publisher gets an unusual plug from a bookseller.
Melville House is publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program as The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture in paper and e-book editions that will be available in stores on December 30.Calling the report "probably the most important government document of our generation, even one of the most significant in the history of our democracy," Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson noted that the publisher was founded in 2001 "with the express purpose of trying to speak out about what was going on under the administration of George Bush. We felt it was our duty to try and get this report out there to the widest possible audience."
For her part, Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., said, "We thank Melville House for publishing this historic report in book form and making it available to the wider public. The book will be on our shelves at Politics & Prose--and hopefully at independent bookstores across the country--as soon as it is out, and surely will be a topic of great interest to our customers."
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