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Originally Posted by EbookNovice
Thanks, but that's only applicable for a book that's well known. What if the e-book I'm reading is from a self-published author? Even if it's a more popular e-book, it just seems so much easier to make changes without people knowing about it compared to a hard cover book.
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It's possible to alter a self-published book with a small readership, but who would want to sanitize such a book? It's not going to influence many people, after all. When a more well-known book is altered, it creates a firestorm. Such a firestorm took place a couple years ago when someone altered Huckleberry Finn to edit out allegedly objectionable language. It turned out to be a bit of a tempest in a teapot, it didn't supplant the original. The edited version ranks #1,321,511 Paid in Kindle Store. A quick look on Amazon shows in addition to the free version which is at #699, there are unedited versions for sale ranking at #46,519 #15,806 #11,775. Clearly the sanitized edition has lost.