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Originally Posted by issybird
It smacks of the estate trying to wring every last dime out of its commodity, especially as his work is entering the public domain in some countries. Hemingway has never been prolific as since his death. His list of posthumous works:
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1985) The Dangerous Summer
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1987) The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
(1999) True at First Light
I'll make an exception for A Moveable Feast (full disclosure: I'm reading it now), but the bulk is repackaged short stories and novels that took a LOT of editing to give them any coherence.
RIP, Papa!
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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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Bingo!
I wouldn't have the slightest problem with pirating any book that is out of copyright that estates, and publishers decide to add or change something from the original and call it a new version so that they can get more money out of it!
If they feel they have the right to circumvent expiring copyright then I would have no problem with circumventing it either.