@James Edstrom: Amen to that. I don't know the good doctor, but why now? All of a sudden, it's important to get this bowdlerized version of Mark Twain's classic on the market. I don't suppose it's just cashing in on the current visibility of Mark Twain? How much scholarship, work, and time would need to go into copying and pasting the text from Google Books, then searching for the "n word" and "change all" to "slave," then sending it off to the publisher?? Just sayin'... Richard Henzel