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Old 01-04-2015, 01:05 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
I wouldn't be totally shocked if the US publisher paid the UK publisher for the books in electronic form rather than convert them.
I'd be surprised, and not only because the UK edition has to be translated for the US publisher.

If the book was originally published in the UK, the US edition is usually a botched abridgement that lacks all of the literary merit of the original British editition.
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