First of all, the word nigger as used by Twain was not a racial reflection, but a reflection of the times and life then extant.
Eliminating that word is violation of American life and literature. Twain wrote the truth, but it seems that NewSouthBooks are not interested in truth in fiction. If the title of that company truly represents the south (and I live there) then it is time for us to move to the north.
It's hard for me to believe that the American people will allow censorship in this day and age.
I denigrated Germany's censorship and Italy's, when I was old enough. I learned, in school, of the evils of any kind of censorship and to what it can lead.
In order to be free, America must fight any and all censorship. Otherwise, friends, we are simply slaves of those people who are in power. History shows us that any past nation that allowed censorship sooner, not later, became a dictatorship and eventually became a nation that could not and would not protect its own citizens.
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, again and again.
Those who stand for censorship are negating Abraham Lincoln's remark about our being a nation of freedom.
Beware of those who want thought police.