The phrase "abridged book" is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to a shortened or condensed version of a longer book. Example sentence: I couldn't finish the entire book in time for my book club, so I ended up reading the abridged version instead.
But his fellow writers might look askance at his day job before becoming a screenwriter: he abridged books.
He earns money by abridging books for audiotapes -- he did Monica Lewinsky's book, a work he described as "trash".
David Magee's day job, abridging books for audio versions, turned out to be pretty good preparation for screenwriting: he's an Oscar nominee and a contender, this weekend, for a Writers Guild Award for his adaptation of Yann Martel's allegorical novel "Life of Pi".
Abridging books for teenagers also implies that they need the story to be watered down to something simpler, despite the fact that so many successful YA books are deeply complex, thought-provoking, and rich with detail – Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill, Seed by Lisa Heathfield, and This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp are just a few examples.
Steer clear of the abridged picture-book version, stripped of the hints of gore ("shrew" and "vole" tactfully replaced with "dinner"), the humour of the exhausted, exasperated owl parents and the mysterious, poetic spaciousness of the original.
Around the same time, publishers Wilcox and Nutt paid a writer named Barrow to abridge the book, circulating it under the title Modern Crown Law.
Soon after the initial publication, the publishers Wilcox and Nutt hired a writer named Barrow to abridge the book, and repackaged it as Modern Crown Law.
Mr. Kennon also brings in a steady paycheck as a teacher; Mr. Greenspan is constantly performing or writing, both to keep his union insurance and to stay in the mix, though he occasionally earns a couple thousand dollars here and there through bread-and-butter work, like editing quizzes for student textbooks or abridging audio books.
McCARTER THEATER CENTER "All the Great Books (abridged)," presented by the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
