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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
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.
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I was proof-reading one of the books in my H. Rider Haggard anthologies a couple of years back, and I got a scanned edition from "archive.org" to proof it against. Much to my disgust, someone (in the original book, not the scan) had blacked out every instance of the word "nigger" in the book. Such things happen with paper books, not just ebooks. It's just easier to spot in paper books.