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Originally Posted by avantman42
If your contract with the publisher assigned the copyright to them, you'd need their permission to do so legally. If you retain the copyright, then yes you can.
At least, that's my understanding. I'm not a lawyer, but I am interested in copyright issues.
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I don't know of any publishing contract that assigns copyright to the publisher. They can, however, assign exclusive distribution rights to the publisher, in which case the author would subsequently be in breach of contract were he to distribute copies of the book himself.