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Originally Posted by graycyn
The whole editing thing has gone on for years with paper books. Occasionally one might see some statement about text being completely unabridged and original, but that is rare!
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Yeah, but editing for typos, grammar, timeline mistakes, etc., is not the same as editing out the "flavor" of a character or characters.
One good thing that has come out of this, for me, is that I found out who wrote the original story for one of my favorite family movies, Matilda (1996 version). I just assumed someone wrote an original script for the movie. Now I was able to borrow the original book from the library and I'm enjoying reading it.
This brings up another issue. Amazon has (in the past) automatically exchanged the book I bought with later editions. If I depended on Amazon (and didn't remove DRM from my books) could I now expect my books to be drastically "re-engineered" by the "clean up" committees? In other words, if I bought the original version of Matilda, would they automatically replace it with the new Netflix version at some future date? I wouldn't be very happy about that.