Ken White
Sensible solution. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/company-article/puffin-announces-the-roald-dahl-classic-collection-to-keep-authors-classic-texts-in-print
Puffin Announces The Roald Dahl Classic Collection to keep author’s classic texts in print

Puffin announces today the release of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, to keep the author’s classic texts in print. These seventeen titles will be published under the Penguin logo, as individual titles in paperback, and will be available later this year. The books will include archive material relevant to each of the stories.   The […]

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Show threadAlexander RutholFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat
One might even suspect it was all a marketing publicity stunt.
Show threadKen WhiteFeb 24, 2023
@Je5usaurus_rex ooh that would be delicious
Show threadAlex WildFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat @Je5usaurus_rex New Coke!
Show threadStu Duerson, machina exo deusFeb 24, 2023

@Je5usaurus_rex @Popehat

IHOP, deja vu.

Show threadSpicewallaFeb 24, 2023

@Je5usaurus_rex @Popehat

They wanted some of that Dr Seuss money.

Show threadmathewFeb 24, 2023
@Je5usaurus_rex @Popehat The Dahl estate is now owned by Netflix, who keep paying shitbirds like Dave Chappelle millions of dollars in spite of mass outcry, so I’d put money on it being a publicity stunt.
Show threadpanaderoFeb 24, 2023
@Je5usaurus_rex @Popehat it worked for dr Seuss
Show threadmonkeytimeFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat But they don't mention if the "classic" text of, say Charlie and the Chocolate Factory includes the 1970s edits to make the Oompa Loompas less racist. Would be nice to know what they mean there.
Show threadAndré MayerFeb 24, 2023
@tmorman @Popehat has this been done for Kipling. Just So Stories great but unusable
Show threadmonkeytimeFeb 24, 2023
@havhmayer @Popehat Kipling isn't the staple of kid's lit that Dahl has been, I think, so there's not as much interest in revising to eliminate the blatant problems.
Show threadNigel TufnelFeb 24, 2023

@Popehat Editing artistic works based on the problematic beliefs/actions of the artist is a good example of the slippery slope.

There are a lot of popular musicians who would fall under this: John Lennon, James Brown, Dr. Dre...etc.

I have young kids and we talk about how people had different beliefs back then, and how society changes (hopefully for the better).

Show threadKevin SoursFeb 24, 2023
@misterrora @Popehat
Shrug. It's also really common and has been for decades at least. You'll be hard pressed to find a copy of the orignal text of "And then there were none" (which isn't even the original *title*) and the world is not the worse off for it.
Show threadJames SpragueFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat Just bizarre insofar as the Puffin label was originally designated for children’s lit. So the kids get the original language and the adults get the watered down language.
Show threadScott ReynoldsFeb 25, 2023
@JamesLHSprague It’s the other way round, I believe.
Show threadJames SpragueFeb 25, 2023

@scottintokyo Thanks. Memory ain’t what it used to be so I just checked with Wikipedia (that irrefutable source 😁) and this is what it says:

“Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.”

Show threadAlun JonesFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat Selling loads of copies to right-wingers buying it "to own the libs".
("Libs" being "librarians")
Show threadJames SpragueFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat This is at least the 2nd instance of a literary estate changing original text that I’m aware of (Dr. Seuss being the 1st). Makes one wonder if there are any legal limits on this trend. For example could the literary trustees change the text of “Guns of Navarone” so the Nazis win?
Show threadKen RyanFeb 25, 2023
@JamesLHSprague @Popehat
That is one of the things the copyright owners get to do...
Show threaddianemartingutel.comFeb 24, 2023
@Popehat btws today in history