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Originally Posted by meeera
My reaction pretty much boils down to "not my circus, not my monkeys". The rights-holders have probably decided they'd sell more books when they put out the edited editiions - probably some more books to (for example) some schools who may have decided they prefer the updated editions, and some more to the people who are so outraged that they'll go buy a whole set of the old ones just to say they did. (If you don't already have the set, were you really that big a fan?)
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When is the right time to object to this kind of insidious change to literature? I don't need to be a fan of a particular author to find it outrageous that his work is being altered in so ham-handed a fashion.