The close quarters of the Ecuadorian embassy have not wearied Julian Assange. The United States’ OR Books have just announced that on November 26 they will publish his new book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet.

According to Esther Addley in The Guardian, the book will be largely based on a transcript of an interview Assange conducted with online activists Jacob Applebaum, Jeremie Zimmermann and Andy Müller-Maguhn on his Russian TV show, “The World Tomorrow.” (Our own David Graeber was a guest back in May.) Said Zimmermann,

“We covered a wide range of issues: from surveillance to data protection, from corporate influence over politics to citizen participation and action, transparency and accountability, from liberalism to anarchism, from copyright enforcement to culture, from flying killing robots (drones) to representation of crime scenes depicting abuse of children (child porn).”

Assange’s publishing history is a little chequered — his last foray did not go well. After he withdrew from his expensive contract with Canongate for an autobiography without returning the advance, the publisher went ahead regardless, with little success.

Addley writes,

“Canongate blamed the collapse of its deal with Assange, reportedly worth a total of £930,000, for operating losses of £368,000 last year. The published book, based on an early draft manuscript, was a dramatic flop, selling only 644 copies in its first week of release.”

Others have had more success writing about him. Even a television movie, Underground: The Julian Assange Story, about Assange’s teenage years on Australia’s Channel 10 has been well-received.

About the book, Assange said in a statement quoted in the New York Times,

“In March 2012 I gathered together three of today’s leading cypherpunks to discuss the resistance,” he said. “Two of them, besides myself, have been targeted by law enforcement agencies as a result of their work to safeguard privacy and to keep government accountable. Their words, and their stories, need to be heard.”