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Originally Posted by bob123
I am wondering if there is an ebook store that sells books with canadian spelling. Or a store that sells ebooks with UK spelling and allows canadians to buy them.
Thanks.
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Now that you mention it, how does anyone find out where a book is from on an e-book site? I just went to Smashwords and looked on the front page where the new releases are and clicked on the first one - a book called Christmas with Norbert, and could not see anything in the general info that would indicate where it was written. By coincidence the book was tagged with the word British, but what are the odds of that in general? More books have tags of where they are set: Canada, England, Iceland, the Moon; and that does not mean that they were actually written there.
Like Anne of Green Gables and The Shipping news, where one author is Canadian and the other American.
The versions of L.M.Montgomery's books that I read always seemed to have UK spelling. It did not occur to me that it was probably Canadian spelling. I can't remember if The Shipping News had US or UK spelling, but that may be because it was so delicious that nothing got between the words and the generated emotions. I do remember it had a curly accent thing under the 'c' of 'facade' that stood out like the sound of a bell.
It's a stumper. There are always the classics to read, the Christies or the Dickenses... Even as I write it I notice it is singularly unhelpful. Sorry.