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1. Canongate Books blames Assange for loss
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 11:37 AM
Oct 2012

... It said it had published some very good books but lost a "significant amount of money on one title".

According to the publishers, Mr Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book "part memoir, part manifesto" but "after sitting with a ghost writer for more than 50 hours of taped interviews, he decided he wanted to cancel the contract".

Canongate went ahead and published Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography but sales were poor ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-19841184

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