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Originally Posted by issybird
I see the point of making discarded versions and manuscripts available for the interested, but when something is repackaged for commercial exploitation the motivation is greed and not aiding scholarly inquiry.
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Exactly.
I've been wanting to read
From Here to Eternity, but the e-book version is a revised edition, putting back material that was cut by the editor. While it's interesting academically, I want to read the version that was originally published, that was part of popular culture in the fifties, that includes whatever compromises were made. I don't want some new and improved version created by the author's estate.