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I wouldn't be so sure about that myself. According to the Times it does seem to be happening with Roald Dahl's books:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roald-dahl-collection-books-changes-text-puffin-uk-2023-rm2622vl0
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/03/04/0521244/roald-dahl-ebooks-reportedly-censored-remotely
I'm old fashioned enough to never consider buying anything else but physical copies of things. I know that the youth of today will mostly disagree. I already feel old.
I’m young, and I don’t care. I have a hard time relating to other people my age in almost every other way anyway. I just do what I like and leave everything else to burn ;)
Well I'm still under 40 (though getting ever closer) but most of the young people today make me feel old before my time. I suppose it's been much the same complaint about the young since the days of Ancient Rome though and somehow we're still here. :)
Right, this is what I meant.
Fair enough! That sucks, and yes, physical media forever!
Why is TB excluded? Has it something to do with the McClory/Whittingham litigation I wonder?
That's my guess as well. Presumably McClory and Whittingham had some rights to the book that meant authorship wasn't assigned solely to Fleming on a legal basis. On the other hand, TB is available at Faded Page, which claims the book is in public domain in Canada, so who knows. Maybe we can find a Canadian lawyer to investigate, pro bono.
Yes, perhaps it has something to do with McClory and Whittingham being credited as co-authors and thus extending the copyright as they died in 1972 and 2006 respectively and so they are not dead long enough for the copyright in the work to have run out. Of course Canadian law may well be different but I seem to remember from Intellectual Property lectures that some of these things are governed by international treaties. It's not really my area of expertise though.
Good catch. Perhaps OP isn't there because no one volunteered to upload it. But there's no reason why it wouldn't be in Canadian public domain. And it's on Faded Page.
Yes, for what? I mean, it would be a redundancy.
And any publishers who do print edited versions of texts may find themselves getting a redundancy package as no reader in their right mind should buy them.
As long as both versions are published I'll be fine.
Yea, a publisher with integrity who doesn't spoon-feed their readers.
I am never touching cleaned-up versions of the Fleming books. Fleming's Bond wasn't meant to be clean.
Completely. Books for people that love books.
I was only going to buy CR a few years ago, as a special treat. Now I have these, all true to the text of the UK first editions. . .
I bought the Penguin Vintage Classic Hardback of the US edit of LALD, because it was at least Fleming approved back in the 50's, and has historic interest. But as for the 2023 censored versions... as one great spy once said, "Balls to you ... and balls again!"
+1
I also love these, as they were the first ones I bought.
For some reason I thought these new Fleming editions were the same as the Fleming-approved US edits?
I don't think children should (or would) be reading Fleming in the first place. Most of the material (and prose) would probably go above their heads. I think kids interested in the Bond films are more likely to move on to Bond video games than half-century-old Bond novels. Children's editions of the books have been tried and the experiment never came off, because the books were written for adults. The literary brand is not for all ages.
Adolescents might start reading the books, but by then they should be old enough to understand the books were written in a very different time and have much different racial attitudes. I don't think they're going to be corrupted by the books, since Fleming's racism is of the blatant kind that's now unacceptable across society. Adding introductions and contextual material would have been a much better and more educational choice than IFP's self-censorship (which still leaves plenty of very problematic material).
I fear that if IFP decided to also publish the original versions, it wouldn't make them available in bookstores but rather sell them directly as deluxe, pricey, hardcover editions meant solely for collectors. That doesn't sit right with me.
The 2019 Folio edition is true to the UK version, including the (quite harmless) Carl Van Vechten chapter title nod.
I think they're all true to the UK firsts, I've read them all except the current FYEO, and couldn't find any difference.
My U.S. Berkley 80's edition has chapter 5 as 'Seventh Avenue' and I'm more than okay with that since the author himself okayed it.