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Amazon is changing what is written in books
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Yes, but you say it like the Author himself changed it.
In the specific Example, the book is from before 2000 and the author is long dead. That book is a piece of culture now, displaying the writing style from a place in time where it was normal to discriminate against people. By changing a book, regardless of if it was actually amazon or just some manager that bought up the rights for the book, it is manipulating the Past. Amazon should not allow to do such things
Oh I didn't think I implied that at all. Certainly didn't mean to. I was just commenting that making cultural artifacts that can be revised into delta-based distributions instead of flat is useful for many reasons. But it's no benefit to the corps and most users don't care so of course it won't happen.
OK, tanks for clarifying that
Yes, it would be great.