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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I believe she is allowed to do this, since the rules that apply to corporations don't apply. The decent thing for the other author to do would have been to say Ok I'll take another look at it and see what I can do. Instead it escalates from there into a big mess with poor judgement being used on all sides.
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Absolutely not. The main reason for republishing old books is for them to be available as an ebook to preserve them from going out of print ever again. It is not a lazy way of an author to rake money in again without doing any of the real work of writing. A simple edit will do.
You don't like that it is exactly political correctness and the term doesn't do it justice? Then call it by the real name. It is the equivalent of fake news with the malicious intent of rewriting history to make yourself paint in a saintly and innocent light by today's standards.
Going forward, by that logic, you will edit every historical book in existence to remove all offending material. You will be no better than a holocaust denier. You will freewilly do the book burnings that did happen not too long ago. If they had the technology back then to simply edit an old version of politically offending books with a new and clean ebook version, they would have done so. Everything they didn't burn, but created new, was propaganda.
If we don't stop this political correctness crap, history will repeat itself.