WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange disowns book
JULIAN Assange has become the subject of a rare publication - an "unauthorised autobiography" - after accepting a large advance for a book and then changing his mind and trying to stop it from being published.
The WikiLeaks founder has previously fallen out with senior members of his whistleblowing website and his media partners at The Guardian and The New York Times and his dispute with his publisher Canongate has been typically acrimonious.
Assange, who failed to return an advance worth several hundred thousand dollars, said the book produced by a ghostwriter after 50 hours of interviews was incomplete and misleading. In a statement he claimed that Canongate's decision to release the book was not about freedom of information but "about old-fashioned opportunism and duplicity screwing people over to make a buck"
