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E-Book Editing Raises Questions for Publishing

A recent Wall Street Journal Books blog post by Nicholas Carr raises questions about the malleability of e-books. The author self-published an essay collection on Amazon, decided to make a few sentence-level changes, and was able to do so in just two days, rather than the months it would have taken if those corrections went through a traditional publisher — that is, if the publisher even agreed to make them.