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Originally Posted by issybird
Yup. And one more thing: the updated versions have fewer pages, catering to a perceived shorter attention span. Sentences also are shorter and have less complex structure. Sometimes only title remains: In The Clue of the Broken Locket was originally about two abandoned babies who are adopted without any involvement by officialdom. Can't have that, so the revised version is about separated twin sisters and two missing children. That's where the slippery slope gets you.
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If I remember correctly, the revised books all had exactly 180 pages. I once compared a sample chapter of one of the Nancys in the original and revised versions--the Flesch-Kincaid reading level of the original was 6.3, of the revision, 4.5. That's a lot of dumbing-down!