[varunprasad]

Blyton and Dahl used to sell about equally well a few decades ago, but Blyton's books fell off a cliff as the racism, anti-gypsy, etc parts of the books meant parents weren't buying them for their kids anymore. Which isn't surprising, considering the many tens of thousands of great books, the vast majority of which don't have these issues, that they could buy for their kids, no decent parent would want to subject their children to these retrogressive ideas presented as absolutely normal.

Avoiding this fate is why the Dahl estate made the decision to edit their books.

Of course, if the people who really think that these capitalistic decisions are a threat to literature and human culture and history, they would challenge the root of the problem, which is copyright protections preventing humanity from enjoying these apparent building blocks of our culture, decades after the authors have passed away and have no say on how they should be treated.

[nhchris]

How would removing copyright prevent malicious publishers from falsifying old books in reprints?

[josephcsible]

It wouldn't prevent them from making fake new versions, but it would prevent them from suppressing the original version.