[alexander_busek]

I wonder why people don't react the same way to the drastic changes between the book version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (in which the Wicked Witch of the West is a minor character [...]

1. Because there was no Internet in 1939.

2. Because, in the meantime, the movie totally overshadows the literary template.

Regards,

[Olog-hai]

Telegraph and teleprinter were teh intarwebs for back then. And of course the venerable snail mail.