Editorial revisions

[djulian]

So, Amazon has some classic works available, and each of them has the following note:

Revised edition: Previously published as Emma, this edition of Emma (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Any idea what that might mean? Comparisons with the copies available on Gutenberg don't show any changes to the text or punctuation.

[Quoth]

Layout?
Heading styles?

Or just Advertising copy to justify charging for something seriously out of copyright as an ebook that widely available free.
Printed Classics are a different thing, and I don't want any "editorial" revisions on printed or ebook other than simple proofing. Editorial revision does sound like more, lik e when Enid Byton's Famous Five, or Stratmeyer Syndicate Hardy Boys were "updated". Though they seemed to revert on most of the Famous Five changes.

My daughter has bought E. Nesbit ebooks from Amazon for her kids even though she knows about Gutenberg and they have books from Gutenberg on their ereaders!

As an aside:
I do find it odd to read British books published well before 1971 where they feel they have to update the currency. That's sort of lying to kids. My grandchildren don't have any difficulty with the fact that there have been technically four currency /coinage changes in Ireland since E. Nesbit wrote her books.
Also Famous Five are very popular in Ireland and we don't use remotely the same currency. Though we did sort of have an Irish currency from 1922 to 1978, till 1978 an Irish pound was exactly one English pound. English coins were used at first and only started to go out of circulation from 1978 as Ireland decimalised when UK did.