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There was a flap about this a few years back over a pbook (major revisions in a new edition). It was Myla Goldberg's "Wickett's Remedy." When the hardcover came out, it got some bad reviews. When they were producing the paperback edition, there were some corrections that were necessary to make. Due to special typesetting in the book, they had to reset the entire book. So the author took the opportunity to rewrite some of it, including some things that reviews had been critical about. This was a major publisher (Anchor Books, an imprint of Random House) and I'm surprised they allowed it.
This kind of thing COULD happen much more often with ebooks. I don't know if it DOES, but it COULD.
(Interestingly, when I went to make sure I had the facts right about this, the Publisher's Weekly article about it is no longer on their website. I don't know if Publisher's Weekly doesn't keep all old articles up, or if they were made to take it down!)
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