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Originally Posted by meeera
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.
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Sounds reasonable, and could be absolutely correct, but I'm wondering.
How much of the revenue from Roald Dahl copyrights is for books as opposed to derivative works like movies and
cartoons? And where did the Netflix executives who paid, over several years, almost US$2 billion for the copyrights, think there is the most possibility of future revenue? And what is the revenue stream they worry about? Books? Really?
Perhaps they either thought it business sense to bring the books into alignment with upcoming cartoons, or decided to send their scriptwriters a message, through the revised books, as to what is acceptable in future Netflix productions.