Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has announced that it will publish the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program” as a book. The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, five years in the making, will be available in print and digital formats beginning Tuesday, December 30, 2014.

Melville House’s plan comes after The New York Times released a heavily redacted version of the Senate Torture Report earlier this week, which proved to be a brutal indictment of the CIA’s response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks as “a portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach.”

Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson said he felt a responsibility to get out the full version as soon as possible. “Our fear was that, with all the distractions of the holiday season, the report would fade quickly from the news cycle. That may, in fact, have even been part of the point of releasing it now, and what seems to have discouraged other publishers from publishing it. But it’s probably the most important government document of our generation, even one of the most significant in the history of our democracy.”

Johnson added that the document posted by the government is “a low-resolution pdf of very poor quality—it’s like a Xerox of a Xerox... But our ebook will be laid out in a fully designed and therefore much more readable format that will also be thoroughly and easily searchable.”