Perpetual shit-show Julian Assange has notched another screw-up in his long list of self-undermining failures: The much-vaunted memoir, for which he received a $1.5 million advance, and wherein he was to lay out for once and for all a defense against the malicious attacks leveled at him from all sides, is going to be published tomorrow against his will because he is an impossible human being ...

Canongate had already paid out roughly $790,000 to Assange by the time he tried to pull out, and since he wasn't offering to pay it back, it maintains that it still has the right to publish ...

The book reportedly contains a chapter explaining, for the first time, Assange's side of the rape allegations pending against him in Sweden. It turns out that the girls were just mad because he wasn't returning his phone calls, and at the same time were intelligence agents plotting to bring him down in a honeytrap ...

http://gawker.com/5842613/the-unauthorized-autobiography-of-julian-assange

By Karla Adam, Published: September 22, 2011

LONDON — In an unusual upset, a renowned tell-it-all publisher is objecting — unsuccessfully — to the publication of his own work. To the release, in fact, of his autobiography ...

Nick Davies, the publishing director of Canongate, said in an interview .... that in March, it was clear that Assange was unhappy with the initial draft O’Hagan wrote, but even though Assange was repeatedly invited to comment, make edits and spell out a new vision for the book, he “did not deliver a single word.”

What he did do is ask to cancel his contract. Canongate “reluctantly agreed” and asked Assange to pay back his advance, Davies said ...

“I’ve worked on other books, and you hit a bump and you find a new way of writing,” Davies said. “Or, you go separate ways and the money is repaid. But this has been just a bizarre situation.” He contended that the seemingly paradoxical “unauthorized autobiography” category could be “a publishing first” ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/julian-assanges-unauthorized-autobiography-released-in-london/2011/09/22/gIQAtq2XnK_story.html