Steevens, who had already edited two complete Shakespeare editions, was not asked to edit the text anew; instead, he picked which version of the text to reprint.
The companies said they had already edited out culturally offensive scenes, like those in which actors exposed too much flesh.
Tarantino had already edited the film to reduce its violent content and had toned down the hue and height of his beloved bloodsplashes.
Mr. Albrecht said HBO had already edited episodes of "Sex and the City" and shown them to outside parties with an eye toward potential sale to broadcasters.
Ingrams was only in his 40s, but had already edited Private Eye for two decades and, according to Hislop, was exhausted after a succession of bruising legal battles.
He had already edited two periodicals on the arts, Europa and Deutsches Museum; in 1820 he became editor of the right-wing Catholic paper Concordia, and his attack in it on the beliefs that he had earlier cherished led to a breach with his brother.
Prior to the publication of Tufekci's open letter the newspaper had already edited the story — changing the headline to replace the word "backdoor" with "vulnerability".
Rumors that genes of human embryos have already been edited resurrect anxieties that the Asilomar scientists neither defused nor eliminated.
The move comes after some scenes were reported to have already been edited to conform with the wishes of Chinese censors.
Many organisms across the range of biological complexity have already been edited in this way to generate designer bacteria, plants and primates.
Obviously, JK Rowling can and does pay for the best copyediting, design, and typesetting in the world, and her books have already been edited by capable Big Six editors; but the important thing that Pottermore highlights is that neither Amazon nor publishers are a necessary evil.
