Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused a UK publisher of a breach of contract for releasing drafts of his autobiography without his approval.
Canongate has said the memoir will be sold in shops and online from Thursday.
But Mr Assange insists it is a work in progress, has not been checked, and that the publisher was profiteering from an erroneous draft.
Canongate says Mr Assange had worked with a ghostwriter, but later backed out and tried to cancel his contract.
The publisher said he had been paid an advance - understood by the BBC to be a substantial six-figure sum - and since he had not repaid it, it had decided to publish the first draft received in March.
Mr Assange said in a statement: "The events surrounding its unauthorised publication by Canongate are not about freedom of information.
"They are about old-fashioned opportunism and duplicity - screwing people over to make a buck."
He said Canongate, based in Edinburgh, had acted in breach of contract and personal assurances that the draft would not be released without his permission.
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