New editions of Thomas Mann

When I started re-reading Der Zauberberg last year, I was disappointed that I couldn’t get an edition with bigger print.  I have a Kindle version too. But it seems that now that Mann’s works are out of copyright, new editions have appeared. There is also an expensive volume full of notes (in German), and even a posh Reclam version. My edition was by S. Fischer Verlage, and now other publishers have appeared, and there are new translations coming out. I am not fully informed of the situation but here is a superficial account.

I saw ads for them when I was reading a Perlentaucher newsletter.

Suhrkamp Verlag Literaturklassiker von Thomas Mann in hochwertiger Neugestaltung

There are new covers by Andrew Davidson.

Der Zauberberg – Der Jahrhunder-Roman prachtvoll illustriert in einer exklusiven Schmuckausgabe (Reclam)

Thomas Manns Jahrhundertroman – erstmals als Retroausgabe im Taschenbuch (S. Fischer Verlage) – yes, there was no paperback before.

It can be read free of charge in Project Gutenberg too and in the German Projekt Gutenberg, which is apparently being restructured.

Is it normal for books to be so restrictedly available while in copyright?

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