'9/11 Report' Proceeds Go to SAIS
Fellowships
Publisher Norton donates $200,000 each to Hopkins and two
entities at NYU
W.W. Norton & Co., the New York-based firm that served
as publisher of the authorized edition of The 9/11
Commission Report, has donated $200,000 from the book's
proceeds to establish an annual fellowship at Johns
Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies.
Norton also has awarded gifts of $200,000 to New York
University's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and
Response and to the International Center for Enterprise
Preparedness, a project within CCPR.
Jessica Einhorn, dean of SAIS, said, "The 9/11
Commission Report donation will offer substantial and
enduring support in preparing our students to become
leaders in one of the most crucial areas of international
relations."
The Norton-9/11 Fellowships in International Relations
will be awarded annually, in perpetuity, to two SAIS
students. To be eligible to receive this partial tuition
award, each student must have stated his or her firm
intention to pursue a career that promotes international
understanding between the United States and other countries
and works toward the goal of preventing terrorism. Whenever
possible, one of the students will be from the United
States and the other from abroad.
In announcing the gifts to SAIS and NYU last week, W.
Drake McFeely, Norton's president, said, "We were deeply
honored to have been selected by the 9/11 Commission as the
authorized publisher of the report. When we undertook the
report's publication, we did so in a spirit of public
service, fully aware that we would shoulder a financial
commitment unprecedented for this firm and were unlikely to
recover all our expenses. Instead, because of the
overwhelming response to the report, we find ourselves in
the privileged position of being able to make voluntary
donations that, we believe, are broad in scope, aim to
serve the interests of all Americans and carry forward the
recommendations of the 9/11 Commission."
The authorized edition of The 9/11 Commission
Report: Final Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was published
in trade paperback by W. W. Norton & Co. on July 22, 2004,
at the time of the 9/11 Commission's release of its report
in a nationally televised news conference. Norton, the
nation's largest independent, employee-owned book
publishing firm, had less than a week to arrange for more
than 500,000 copies to be printed and express shipped to
bookstores nationwide. The authorized edition with index
was published in hardcover by Norton on Sept. 7, 2004. To
date, the report has sold more than 1 million copies.
Norton was selected from among competing publishers
based on its commitment to adhere to specific criteria in
releasing the book: affordability (an unusually low list
price of $10 for the 592-page trade paperback); accuracy
(Norton pledged to publish exactly what the commission
wrote, with no additions, deletions or editorial changes of
any sort); availability (nationwide distribution
simultaneous with the commission's release of its report);
and longevity (Norton's president has pledged "to undertake
whatever steps are necessary to ensure that this historic
document is available to the American public for
generations").
The commission received no advance payment, income or
royalties from Norton, and Norton received no money from
the commission.
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