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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Depending on the amount of rewriting the publisher did, and the contract that was signed, the writer might also be violating the publisher's copyright by releasing their version of the book. Unless stated otherwise in the contract, he would only have the rights to his original manuscript version. First time writers don't tend to get much leeway in what is included in contracts, and a lot will sign anything just so that they can become a published author. That's why a lot of the people who switch to self-publishing release expanded/revised versions of previously published books.
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But no publisher would follow this because of possible bad publicity.