Airbrushed
If you've been following the kerfuffle over Amazon's summary deletion of certain ebooks from customers' Kindles, you'll be amused to know that 1984 is one of the titles that have been disappeared. Thanks to my friend Jeremy for pointing this out to me, and also thanks to my friend Victor, who was reminded of a piece from Byte magazine that imagines how a certain famous book would be published the way software is: Moby Dick 2.1.
We have added several new characters to version 2.1. In particular, several readers reported that the character of Harold the bookkeeper, who was intended to act as a foil for Ishmael, simply did not work. This character has been replaced by Queequeg, a South Seas savage.
Labels: fun, Technology
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
1 Comments:
I hope you've read the series of Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde, in which it's common to retroactively change the plots of works of literature and they do sometimes have version numbers like that.
Besides, they're excellent books.
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