Thread: Amazon selling a pirate edition of Clifford Simak's "City"?
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Old 10-10-2012, 08:20 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
Sleazy? If it's out of copyright, what's wrong with publishing it?
There are three versions of CITY. The magazine version was 8 separate stories set in the same timeline. The 1952 novel spliced the stories with a frame. And the 1973 version added a ninth story; Epilog.

The outfit in question might be legally publishing the 8 short stories but without the framing segments it wouldn't really be the "novel" that buyers expect. At that price, I'd call that intentionally misleading = sleazy.
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