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Readers who own digital copies of Roald Dahl books on their Kindle devices are expressing their dismay at their collections being automatically updated with the new censored versions that were revised to be more politically correct.
Despite the fact that she purchased the original version of Dahl's 1988 classic Matilda, one reader by the name of Clarissa Aykroyd shared that her Kindle had updated to the newly-released censored version, which switched phrases like "mothers and fathers" to the gender-neutral "parents."
In the current version of the book, any mention of both Conrad and fellow novelist Kipling were scrubbed.
"I barely cared about the Roald Dahl changes before, but hearing that they are forcing updates to customers who had previously purchased uncensored ebooks makes me want to throw my Kindle in the trash," wrote another Twitter user.
After the backlash surrounding the new editions, Puffin Books announced they would be releasing uncensored "classic texts" of Dahl's work, though Kindle users weren't given the choice to pick.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
originally posted by: MonJack
That news is interesting for me as an ebook fan and aspiring writer. I want to release ebooks first. And if my fiction works become popular and interesting for readers, only then do I plan to switch to a printed book. And I know I would not like such automatic editing and updates of my work. I have already contacted the site penfellow.com... for the most successful editing. And the final version of my work is quite good, in my opinion. The ebook ghostwriting and editing help was a perfect find that improved my fiction to its maximum quality. Therefore, I will repeat that as an author, I do not consider it reasonable to make changes to fiction works without prior agreement with me. After all, with such changes, you can lose the initial idea the author laid down.