Wow, talk about a tempest in a teapot as far as we Yanks go! There were no plans to change the US editions of Dahl’s books.
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A spokesperson for Dahl’s U.S. publisher Penguin Young Readers told PW that there are no plans for similar revisions in the U.S. “Roald Dahl books published by Penguin Young Readers and distributed in the U.S. are the editions that have existed for years and do not reflect the recent editorial changes made in U.K. editions.
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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...ublishers.html
It reminds me of
Brideshead Revisited. Waugh revised it post-publication, to its detriment in my opinion, but the US continued — and continues — to publish the superior original version. Which brings up a different issue but one I think is important: even if the author has every right to revise his work, once it’s published I think he should draw a line under it, short of minor corrections for fact, grammar, punctuation, diction. Unfortunately in these digital days it’s possible for a book to remain a work-in-progress forever. Authors even seem to use their first purchasers as a form of beta reader.