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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It's not circumventing copyright. The book with the original ending will enter the public domain eventually (barring extensions to copyright). It's just that if you want the version with the alternate endings, that will be under copyright. If readers believe that the alternate endings adds value, they will buy that version. otherwise, the will stick with the public domain version.
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Precisely. There are numerous scholarly editions of public domain books (eg the "Penguin Classics" series); the book's text is in the public domain, but the notes, introduction, appendices, etc, are not. To say that doing this is "circumventing copyright" is nonsense.