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Substitute farmers for authors, and vegetables for books, and you get an equally valid question, and the answers should be pretty much the same.[*]
The answer is not simple, though. On the one hand, if they sell their products (books or vegetables) to someone else (a publisher or whatever), they sell it and they should not expect to have any particular control on it. On the other hand, it is only sensible that they get angry if something outrageous is done with their products. In principle, both could sell the products to someone else if they are not satisfied with the conditions of some buyer; in practice, the conditions tend to be quite similar anywhere.
[*] Authors get the additional "protection" of copyright and intelectual property, which farmers don't, but that's about the only difference I see now.
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