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Originally Posted by Quoth
Often the full version is earlier and later re-issued version is abridged (especally paperbacks for younger readers). It's almost always done by the publisher, especially after the author's death. Rarely by author request. More common for an author's later preferred version to be longer.
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More recently, some companies have started putting out children's and young adult versions of recent popular nonfiction books. For example, there was a young adult version of the book Unbroken.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Some PD editions are clearly marked as abridged. In my experience it's always the published paper edition that was abridged and it was not done by the people transferring to text.
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And there's often no way to know the paper edition was abridged. Sigh.