Does nobody go to the library anymore? :(

My school district (county?) requires Inferno as reading at least in excerpted form and I have no reason to believe other counties are too dissimilar. There's a chance many who play the game already are aware of the original.

Considering it's public domain, I hope they aren't fleecing folks on it.

That's pretty much what I was thinking too. It happens all the time with movie adaptations of famous literary classics, so why not with game adaptations as well?

Yeah, it's not unlike a Dan Brown book with a cover saying "NOW A MOVIE" or something.

same here, but boy was I glad the thing had annotations.

I'd love to, but I like to see my library grow so much. ... I have probably thrown more money out of the window for books than for games! (considering I can burrow them pretty cheaply)

Another idiotic ad from the utterly ignorant morons running the EA crap-company. I'd like to know then how a poem that's not easy to understand even in it's own language (it's considered to be the foundation of the Italian language, but centuries have passed since then) could appeal someone running for the nth clone from the company that makes only clones.
It's Dante ALIGHIERI, anyway :-D

Maybe play the game, skip the reading!

As much as the game disgusts me, this edition looks awesome. God damn it, you KNOW this is going to be a really cool little collectible in 50 years. Like all these old penny dreadfuls you can find now, 50-cent or less books with really cheesy covers, folks will see these editions in used shops and be absolutely baffled.
Longfellow's probably the best translation of it, too, but...I hate Dante's poetry. Boring and strictly formulaic. Not being religious doesn't help any, neithuh. Give me some free-verse any day.

....I liked the game play of Dante's Inferno. The fact there is a book not written in "ultra elite philosopher speak" makes me very happy. Oh and if there is a bundle on Amazon I might get both ^_^ Neat Find!

Yeah, the only problem I see here is if you are one of those people who are self-conscious about reading in public. And in that case, just don't read in public.
It is nothing new for book jackets to be changed. Hell, I have a sneaking suspicion that the reprint of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp books were done because, from a distance, the picture of Flynn on the back cover looks remarkably like Jeffrey Donovan's Michael Westin (from the TV Show "Burn Notice"). I find it hilarious :p
The only time this ever bothered me was with the movie allegedly based off of Asimov's collection of short stories called "I, Robot". And that is just because the tie-in with the Will Smith is Jesus movie might paint certain stories in a more sinister light (the early applications of the Zeroth Law). That lasted a year or so, then the cover got another redesign, so whatever.
And to the guys saying "Don't judge a book by its cover": I couldn't disagree more. So many of my favorite books were found because they had pretty covers that made me go read the back.

Indeed, the whole point of modern book covers is to try and attract potential readers. The cover image should also reflect the substance of the book, otherwise it may mislead potential readers (although I'm sure that has happened).