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Originally Posted by Mike L
To be accurate about this, the original novel wasn't in fact "censored" - at least, not in the sense of a government or a court forcing parts of the work to be cut. It was the publishers, Scribners, who wanted the changes, presumably not for any legal or moral reason, but because they believed the book would sell better that way.
Of course, the effect was the same as if a government body had ordered the changes. But it's worth keeping in mind that the motives were commercial rather than moralistic. In that sense, it's not all that different from the many other occasions when publishers request (or require) their authors to make changes to their works, which happens every day.
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See, that is why I was commenting on how there should be "uncut" editions. They cut things for fiscal reasons all the time with movies, and later they offer the director's cut. I know people who have multiple copies of movies because they wanted that extra 30 seconds or something silly. It would be easy for publishers to offer ebooks of these, where they wouldn't have to have the extra hype and press of a new release, but make additional money and stir interest in the existing product.