Probably the best example I can think of is Diane Duane reworking her Wizards series to make it modern-day, but there are others, including owners of a literary estate altering books left to them to make them compatible with current standards.
What do you think? Does it matter if it’s the original author or an inheritor?
I think it depends on what’s being changed and why. Like, I don’t LOVE it but I understand updating the Babysitter’s Club books for modern children, or updating older kids books to get rid of stuff that didn’t age really well. But stuff like Carrie doesn’t need to be updated to reference blogs and youtube instead of newspapers.
I mean I think it’s totally fine for modern kids to read old books that have landline phones and having to all go to the library to use a computer for a school report, but I also think it’s fine for some books to update that stuff. Like back when I was a kid I read plenty of older stuff, or stuff that took place in older days, and that was fine, but I don’t think I could stand only ever reading fiction where people communicated via telegraph.