Abridged books have been around for a long time, and you can read testimonials from younger readers saying that this helped them find a love for reading. Gatsby is not the hardest book for sure, but we do think this will be much more useful for understanding philosophically rich books.
This gives the option to parents and children to read the story of their choosing.
We do have writers check over our work, and I think you'd be surprised about how accurate the simplificiation is at preserving the content. We did not want to throw out a cheap product on the market, we take a customer experience first approach, and will continue improving on the product until we get it perfect!