Another take:
davidallengreen.com/2023/02/a-latter-day-tale-of-t.../
No censorship, just a publisher exploiting the market.
Think they did it for a bit of extra publicity as well - they knew there would be a lot of complaints and they are now ensuring the original versions are still available - so they get two markets - the traditionalist and the one that would not have bought the originals. Good business sense whilst keeping the books in the publics minds.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing has been tried and it failed. On this occasion, wheilst the publisher in the UK has relented - they haven't gone all the way and stopped the publication of the woke version of the books, and already many people are intimating that the original version will bemoved from their traditional children's section in bookshops to at least teenagers, if not adults.
Abroad, there is no plan to sell the originals any more, confirmed by their Dutch counterparts.
A good example where a partial reversal - more likely a temporary respite from the woke trend - is in current-day Star Trek TV, whereby the latest series - 'Picard' season 3, has mainly avoided the wokeness and bad story-telling on the previous seasons and (all) other recent series (Discovery, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, etc) with lots of nostalgia (the current terminology is 'memberberries' [see Spider-man: No Way Home as a great example]).
I suspect that Paramount-CBS and their 'Trek' production company 'Secret Hideout' (an offshoot from 'Bad Reboot' for films) is trying this in a desperate attempt to keep the few remaining fans watching in order to hook a lot back along with new extenral funding because they've lost so much money in the franchise since 2009.
The same (as I stated earlier) applies to Doctor WHO, where fan interest is on the floor after it went woke about 7-8 years ago and ramped it up significantly a couple of years later. Many people will see through the PR nowadays and won't return. Unfortunately, the few genuinely 'new' (original) work produced in novels, TV and film these days is often even worse than the repurposed woke rubbish.
A tiny amount is actually very good, but rarely does it get much backing by the money people because so many are now run or influenced by woke orgnaisations like Blackrock or run by weak people who whatever the activists scream for this week.
As I've said on other topics on this section, it's all part of an agenda to break up society to put in place something a lot different, but not something 95% of society would like or want to be part of.
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