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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's also an entirely normal part of the editorial process. Editors have always changed spelling and punctuation. Look at a dozen published versions of Austen or Dickens, and you'll find amongst them probably at least 3 or 4 different variants of spelling, hyphenation and punctuation.
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This is so true!
And, they can shorten or omit sentences and even whole paragraphs when going from say hardcover to paperback. Or when an omnibus type edition containing several books is published.
They definitely can change and modernize stuff. There are two distinct versions of The Blue Man by Kin Platt, the original hardcover and a Scholastic paperback edition. In the Scholastic PB, quite a few cultural references were changed. So editorial changes aren't limited to just spelling and punctuation.
The annoying bit is that these changes take place, but in most instances, there is no notation for the reader that a text has been modernized or changed.
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