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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nobody needs to "authorise" it. If you're reading a book out loud to your children, you don't need the author's permission to alter words that you feel would be unsuitable for them. This is exactly the same.
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As one who is so quick to stress the differences between digital and print, I would think it would be fairly
easy for you see that some may not think "this is exactly the same." Mostly because it's NOT the same
at all. You can't equate "making your own substitutions for words when reading out loud to your children from a book" with "letting your children read books where words were substituted FOR them by 3rd parties." The first is about controlling what you want your kids to hear, the second is about
relinquishing that control to someone else: the someone else who's selling you the books.
As far as I'm concerned, the makers of Clean Reader are distributing three predetermined altered versions of copyrighted works (Clean, Cleaner, Squeaky). Doesn't matter that the original came along for the ride with those predetermined altered versions. Clean Reader decided,
in advance, what words would be changed when Billy reads Book X on Setting 1. They decided for Billy and
everyone else who reads Book X on Setting 1. Sounds like the distribution of unauthorized versions to me.