As a genuine question, what is the best way to combat things like this as an individual?
I will obviously choose not to buy egregious rewrites like this, but Penguin is out maybe ten bucks from my decision on that front.
I've got neither the skillset nor the bandwidth to attempt to organize boycotts or anything, and don't have the pubic clout to call public retribution down on the publisher.
I'm asking because I strongly oppose such whitewashing, and it can feel demoralizing not knowing what to do about it.
(A perfectly acceptable answer might be that, sadly, there's nothing one can do at an individual level.)