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To: DJ Frisat

Family gave me a NooK last Christmas.

Do Kindle and NooK mess around with original writings? For some reason I’ve been buying hard backs of W, Rick Perry, Coulter, Beck, Hannity, Rush, et al.

Are hardcovers edited after 1st edition.

I’ve been looking to get “The Screwtape Letters”. Would that have been messed with, too.

If political books (from the Conservative side of the fence) have been altered, are books with religious themes or written by faith based authors (Christians and Jews) also rewritten?


46 posted on 03/10/2012 9:31:13 AM PST by hummingbird (SPARTACUS --->BREITBART --->FREEPERS - ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!)
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To: hummingbird
Try going to the Gutenburg project for free, public domain, books. There is a lot of stuff and you can get it in a Kindle format.

For C.S. Lewis stuff, stay away from anything that has been edited by Walter Hooper. This is the guy who inveigled himself into the position of managing Lewis's literary estate from Lewis's brother shortly after Lewis's death. Before that, Hooper had helped Lewis briefly one summer after Lewis got out of the hospital to move things around at home when Hooper was over in England for some graduate school business. After he heard of Lewis's death later that year, he flew back over and the rest is history. He has since taken to referring to himself as Lewis's live-in secretary for an extensive time before his death, but he had actually been living in the U.S. and teaching at a private school. His sole contact with Lewis was that part time job in the summer before Lewis's death. People who are familiar with Lewis have referred to Walter Hooper's versions as the "waltered" versions. See The C.S. Lewis Hoax and later versions for more information on this literary tragedy.
48 posted on 03/10/2012 9:42:47 AM PST by aruanan
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To: hummingbird

I regret that I can’t give you a definitive answer to any of your questions, but believe that Kindle (and, probably, Nook) versions are provided in eBook format by the publishers, and therefore should have the same content of the equivalent print version.

I would hope that a notice of revision would be included along with any subsequent editions of any type of book, where such changes have been made.


54 posted on 03/10/2012 10:39:16 AM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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