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Relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-and-noble-e-reader-war-and-peace.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/b
by tjoff 14y ago
Relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-and-noble-e-reader-war-and-peace.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-a...
...Barnes and Noble’s budget electronic edition of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word “kindled” (a variant of the name of Amazon’s e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word “Nookd.”...
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- mikecane 14y agoThat wasn't by B&N. It was by a cheapass public domain parasite who did a search to replace "Kindle" (probably as in "Kindle Edition") and wound up FUBARing the book before submitting it to B&N.