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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
No, you misunderstand. The emphasis is "author".
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Okay. And the message you replied to (and quoted) was:
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Originally Posted by meeera
There's actual, current, accelerating bannings and banning advocacy to get worried about, primarily of books dealing with LGBTQIA+ identities and race and racism.
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What in the above quote relates to your argument about authors?
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The author is the one and only entity that should be allowed to make changes. After death, there cannot be anymore changes. A publisher's editor may suggest changes to make a book acceptable for publishing, but ultimately the author needs to do it. The right that the author gives up temporarily, or permanently, should only be the right to publish, not the right to edit for other than typos.
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The books in question are under copyright and the changes are not being pushed by the publishers, but rather by the author's heirs/rightsholders.
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Should books be criticized for not including any LGBTQIA+ characters? It should be the authors decision to include or not include certain people.
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Authors should write what they want to write. I'm not really certain where that came from or who is saying anything different.
Once it is published, a book may be criticized for not including such characters. But of course, opinions are like body body parts... everyone has them.