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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
No one is talking about passing off a changed work as the "Real McCoy." If changes were made without informing the reader than changes were made, then yes, that would be deceptive. But from the beginning, it has been clear that what is being discusses involves books where it is made clear to the reader that this is an edited version.
For an edited version to replace the original would require that all the sellers supress the original in favor of the edited version. That's a conspiracy.
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No. As I said, if you are faced with a choice of, oh, 10 versions of
Silver Princess a year from now, none of them being from PG, how do you know which one to download if you want the undoctored original? Not conspiracy: confusion.
I used to run Web site that included a lot of links to public domain children's books. Usually the links were to PG, but sometimes other sites seemed to have "nicer" versions (this was back before e-readers when PG's versions were text files). Turned out that some of those other versions were bowdlerized, which I only learned because some readers pointed it out. Certainly the sites where the books were offered didn't. I had no way of knowing, nor did the people who followed my links for downloads.