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Ripped off by Apple Books? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by AggravatingBox2421@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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So yesterday, I bought a copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s on apple books to read at work on my lunch break. It was okay, but when I went to find the page count to record it in my reading journal, I noticed that the text is completely different from my penguin classics edition. The Apple Books version is shortened, and is just a crappy abridgement of the original. Now I’m pissed off, because I paid for the digital version and it didn’t say anywhere that it wasn’t the original text. It even used the penguin paperback edition cover art! Is there any way to report this kind of stuff?

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[–] PandaNoTrash@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Wow TIL, this is really good info to know. This sounds like the same thing that's been happening on Amazon's site. Authors names aren't copyrighted so you can call yourself Truman Capote if you want. They shouldn't be able to use original artwork though (not that it would matter much). I thought this was going to be fairly easy to avoid but without reviews how would you know this book was a fake? I really dislike this timeline in so many ways.