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Absent from your question is the author [1]. The owners may have the legal right to edit and distribute the text, but by passing it off as Roald Dahl's words, t
by nhchris 4y ago
Absent from your question is the author [1]. The owners may have the legal right to edit and distribute the text, but by passing it off as Roald Dahl's words, they are perpetrating fraud against their readers.
And even if it were the author doing it, it would be dishonest to have multiple versions under the same title, unless there was a note at least briefly mentioning alterations.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017707
- andsoitis 4y agoPenguin, the publisher, has decided to also publish the classic versions: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/penguin-publish-classic-roald-dahl-books-after-backlash-97441402 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/penguin-publish-cl...
- pseudo0 4y agoSo they are removing the original copies from e-readers and then forcing people to buy it again? What a grift.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoSo what? Can I rewrite any book as I want and for any cries just say "Hey! I printed an original version! The whole 10 copies! Locked in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of The Leopard'?
- andsoitis 4y agoActually, your comment sparked a new thought for me. What if this (two concurrently published versions of the books) is purely an emergent property of our increasingly bifurcating society?
- justsomehnguy 4y agoPsst! Hey, man! That's what was for years! It's just the publishers weren't in the same country or even in the same political block.