Artists' works have been changed, both by themselves and others, both before and after publication, to avoid offending audience and/or sponsors for a
long time, and I don't see any reason that would change. The first example I can remember hearing of is Molière in 1600s
(a few more examples in this post), but I'm sure there are many, many cases before that.
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The thing that really gripse me is there is no way to know what is being delivered from the Amazon description.
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I have no idea what other changes were made.
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I agree, this kind of thing is annoying. If I were dictator of the world
all publishers would keep a change log for each book they published with information about what had been changed in each edition, and each bookseller would state clearly which edition each book was, with a link to that change log.
Personally, I don't mind many of these changes (I don't really need Christie's original casual racism to be included, for instance), but I'd like to
know what I'm reading.
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The copyright date of 2020 indicates this has been going on longer than I realized.
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Yes, I think this is very, very usual and has been going on since forever, but it seems like there's a storm of it now because newspapers have discovered that writing indignantly about a fairly routine part of book publishing generates a lot of outrage and clicks.