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Originally Posted by tompe
Because it infringes on the authors moral rights which is part of copyright in Europe.
I assume the replaced words are not marked and what happens is that a new work is presented as the authors work and even if readers know the app working when reading they will base there opinion about the author on the transformed work.
I find it depressing that some persons in this thread that are strong defenders of authors commercial copyright do not seem to care about the more important moral part of copyright.
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Any right an author has to moral rights is AFAIAC dealt with now that they are required to buy the book elsewhere and sideload it just like Mantano and Moon Reader.
I am aware that many moronic Europeans consider it illegal and immoral to "transform an author's work" by taking a sharpie to a pbook -- while I don't think you are going that far, I consider it the same form of absolute nonsense.
Clean Reader was engaging in libel. Now they aren't. A consumer can do whatever he wants with his own property, and authors can suck it up or die.
All the authors I respect anyway don't care about it any more than I do.