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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is what editors do, DD; it's their job. They use their professional judgement to decide what changes to make to a book to make it more commercially saleable. They don't as a rule, include in the book a detailed list of precisely what changes they've made.
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It's their job BEFORE the book is published, in collaboration with the author and/or the author's representatives. It's NOT their job when they're taking an existing previously published book and deciding that they know better than the original author, editors, and publishers.