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susan_cassidy · 10-30-2011, 05:27 PM

I've never heard of books having their spelling changed for different markets. If I buy a book by a UK author, I get UK spelling. If I buy a book by a US author, I get US spelling. Presumably, a Canadian author uses Canadian spelling.

The text of a book should never be changed by a publisher, as far as I'm concerned. I'm still upset that they changed the wording of "The Philosopher's Stone" to "The Sorcerer's Stone" for the first Harry Potter book, for the US market.

10-30-2011, 05:27 PM	#12
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I've never heard of books having their spelling changed for different markets. If I buy a book by a UK author, I get UK spelling. If I buy a book by a US author, I get US spelling. Presumably, a Canadian author uses Canadian spelling. The text of a book should never be changed by a publisher, as far as I'm concerned. I'm still upset that they changed the wording of "The Philosopher's Stone" to "The Sorcerer's Stone" for the first Harry Potter book, for the US market.