NewSouth Books is a ninth-rate small publisher based in Alabama. OBVIOUSLY they are both looking for some publicity
AND trying to cash in on what they see as the ‘trend’ of increasing numbers of schools’ being amenable to the idea of altering these classics so as to be in the vanguard of PC. The mere act of issuing an edition without the N word or the word Injun presupposes there will be enough schools and students who these books can be disseminated to to make it worth their while to put out this PC alteration.
It’s a stupid gamble, since they’re “answering a need”, as they see it, but also trying to FOSTER a continuing need, by letting it be known that THEIR editions are there for any school that wants to buy them.And on top of all that, they need to MAKE MONEY ON IT.
Hard to imagine they’ll make anything on this enterprise, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find the long arm of the Obama Administration or its surrogates somewhere in this, helping out with some secret or indirect funding.
NO REPUTABLE PUBLISHER would ever do this to an American Classic like Huck Finn.
THIS is a publisher whose audience is PC School Boards, Administrations, and the ‘vulnerable’ young students they tell you they are trying to ‘protect’ from ‘troublesome’, ‘out-of-date’ words, which they think are explosive now, 125 years later, but weren’t then.
NewSouth Books is a ninth-rate small publisher based in Alabama. OBVIOUSLY they are both looking for some publicity AND trying to cash in on what they see as the ‘trend’ ... And on top of all that, they need to MAKE MONEY ON IT.
Oh no, capitalism. It's not like this is the first classic to be expurgated for use in schools. I thought FR was in favor of letting people make a buck.