The original plan was to publish only the revised editions, and not the originals. This ALSO meant that e-book copies would be automatically updated. I don't th

The original plan was to publish only the revised editions, and not the originals. This ALSO meant that e-book copies would be automatically updated. I don't think "we'll make the original writings unavailable to anyone" is a good thing. They walked back on that after the controversy though, and you can now buy both the original and revised editions. It would be like someone deciding that only the NIV of the bible can be bought from now on, and the KJV wouldn't be sold any more and all e-book versions of the KJV would be updated. For modern readers the NIV is clearly the better translation IMO, but there's obviously also a lot of value in having the KJV around (as well as other editions). I also have some gripes with some specific edits they made – at times it feels like they weren't even trying to replace the original with something decent and some edits are ridiculous – but that's more minor. The biggest problem was the "here are the new versions and these are the versions everyone should have and the original versions never existed" kind of attitude they seemed to have.