It's come to this

The publisher — whose anti-Sarah Palin essay collection Going Rouge wound up a New York Times bestseller — will release Occupying Wall Street as a print-on-demand product and independent e-book, with all profits going back to the occupation.

Attributed to the still-undefined group “Writers for the 99%,” Occupying Wall Street will be compiled by a team of about 20 yet-unnamed interviewers in the next two weeks (and written in the subsequent two), but will be told in the form of a collaborative story, not as a series of interview transcripts or essays. Robinson sees the movement as “creating an alternative society in the middle of the financial center of the world,” and wants to mirror that “openness and horizontal democracy” in the book’s creation, but admits that’s impossible to achieve completely. “I don’t think you can write a book like that,” he said, bristling at the possibility of calling the book an “authorized” account. “At a certain point people have to go away and write it,” he said. “You can’t approve every sentence. But we’ll try to be as open about the process as we can.” The idea for the book has not been presented at the movement’s nightly general assembly meetings, but Robinson said there has been “a fair amount of support for the idea” among organizers.