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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I think the problem with ebooks is that unless the early version has been widely pirated, once the changes have been made that is the only version available. So any future historians will struggle to put them into context if they keep being updated. It will be even worse if it isn't the original writer doing the updating.
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Suddently, I'm getting a mental image of George Lucas' neck, for some reason, and hearing an evil laugh in my head.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Whereas with real books, no matter what happens to them later there is always a permanant copy left behind. So if you wanted to read Enid Blyton with gollywogs instead of goblins, you could still do so.
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Even without stripping DRM, no edits that any author or publisher makes will ever change
my downloaded copy of the books I buy (because I don't buy from places where that might be an issue). B&N ebooks, for instance, are trivially easy to download, and equally easy to transfer to different devices.