Losing the print

I have a shortlist of authors whose new books I always await eagerly. Unfortunately, one of them posted the following on her website:

"Note that my agent tried to find a print publisher for this book and failed. I have some hopes that we may still do so, provided the novel does well on Kindle. Please remember to post reviews if you like a book. The problems of finding a publisher are related to small sales numbers, and sales depend on reviews and word-of-mouth advertising. Readers decide if books remain in publication.)"

Darn it. I'm still not converting to eBook readers.

Lat ... Kampung Boy ... Town Boy ... Lots of Lat ...

Inspired by my recent drive up to Malaysia (first time in more than 10 years and first time beyond JB), I decided to borrow the Lat comic books from NLB for my daughter ... for her exposure ... as well as introduce her to some elements I was exposed to myself as a kid, not in M'sia but close enough.

I was rather surprised to find the Kampung Boy copies in NLB (all from more recent reprints) left out a couple of pages I remembered from the original.

Namely, when Mat got home and showed his father the tin he dredged and his father's reaction.

I was thinking ... what the heck???!!!!! Censorship? Self-censorship?

By who? Publisher or Lat?

I know it's probably frowned on today, but this strip was done aeons ago.

Yeah, they "modernised" Mark Twain and Herge, so why not Lat?

Grrrrr

I think I'll try to find the original in some used book stores.

Would appreciate any help here.