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The Irony of Mueller-Report Profiteering

Ebook promos and paperbacks of the special counsel’s report encapsulate the investigation’s theme: The government is for sale.
Source: Ian Bogost / The Atlantic

When the Justice Department releases Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report this morning, it will be published on the Special Counsel’s Office website. By federal law, it will be placed in the public domain. That means you’ll be able to download the report for free to read on your computer or smartphone, to print out, or to email to your friends who don’t know where to find it.

That’s not stopping Barnes & Noble, the bookseller, from offering its own version of the Mueller report as a free download on its Nook tablet-and-app ebook platform. “We’ve received strong demand

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