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“ be a! q ney. 3s a pts : : na . ‘ . cle gat “«# - 4 a Tn ee ee eT haw NY 100-161445 "Hoffman, he says, first offered to give him 70 per cent of the royalties for doing most of the work, trimmed the percentages down to a 50-50 split when he realized the book's selling potential, and eventually forced him nto contract negotiations that left Haber with 223 per cent of the royalties directly from book sales, "IWhen he began to see the same vision of the book I saw and began talkine that the book was worth a rs ee er Whee, WO re we oe quarter of a million dollars, our friendship “flew out the window,’ Haber said, "Branding the charge an ‘unmitigrated lie,’ Hoffman says Haber's suggestion in December 1969 of writing a book on living free of charge by ‘ripping off' the systen derived from Hoffman's earlier pamphlet, ' -the System,' which he had planned to expand anyway. "While he admits promising Haber first 70 and then 50 per cent of the profits, Hoffman says those percentages were scuttled last summer when he realized Haber's manuscript was ‘essentially a collection of clippings and articles fron the underground press,' "When I looked at this wad of notes he had given me, I told him he didn't write a thing,' Hoffman said. ‘I wrote the book it's my style, and you nume me one researcher that even got 224 per cent of the royalties of a book,' "Billed as a ‘handbook for survival and warfare for the citizens of Woodstock Nation,' 'Steal This Book' instructs readers how to make bombs, battle the police, shoplift from ‘guerrilla’ radio stations and underground newspapers, fly on airplanes and make long distance calls free of charge and get food, clothing and shelter free. -64~ ee Sn a ee ag UE Se RN cmegeatanint an ere ee parame ae ee. eee ne