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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
In Life + 70 U.K, I think the PD date is 2046-01-01 for everything Wodehouse wrote. And it may be that the revisions are for the U.K. and Ireland only.
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That may be the case for Wodehouse, but Amazon US is already selling Bowdlerized Christie books for Kindle. The other day I bought
Death on the Nile hoping to beat the changeover, but no such luck. A search on two of the edited words mentioned in a newspaper article turned up neither, so it must be new. I decided not to return it since the only way to read the original version would be to buy a used paperback from somewhere. I don't want to start buying paperbacks again.
The thing that really gripse me is there is no way to know what is being delivered from the Amazon description. They list the publication date as 2005, but that description is from a paperback published by William Morrow Paperbacks. Even in the ebook itself, you have to get to the end of the copyright/printing history to find:
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Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-176017-4
Version 12292021bcm
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I haven't read the book yet but a quick scan hasn't turned up any
mention that the book isn't original. The newspaper article said, among other changes, the words "oriental" and "Nubian" have been removed; a search did not turn up these words so I assume this is the Bowdlerized version. I have no idea what other changes were made.
The copyright date of 2020 indicates this has been going on longer than I realized. Consequently, I will no longer be buying any Agatha Christie books.