Also, what are these pages filled with?
2007-07-05 04:58:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Because it's a different publisher, the American is Scholastic, and the British is Bloomsbury. The American use12-point Adobe Garamond font, which is bigger than the one in the British one and plus Americans put the headline of the chapter above every page and the chapter number and have bigger margins. Also every chapter in the American edition starts with a picture showing a scene in the chapter and the British version doesn't include illustrations. And since I'm from Macedonia, and I've seen both American and English versions of the same books, I can say that there is no difference in the text, only in the number of pages and in the cover. And as an additional fact both versions are coming out at the same time.
2007-07-05 14:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by aceix 6 · 28⤊ 1⤋
Language differences, font and pages. They had to change a lot of words from the british version to the US. I mean there are words that we wouldn't understand or the way they talk in the UK is completely different than the US. Yes,it's english but it's still different. Also check out the covers for the two different styles. The fonts are different and one may take up more pages than the other.
2007-07-05 10:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by angelicasongs 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The print may be larger than the uk version.
2007-07-06 02:49:53 · answer #3 · answered by gorge san 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's most likely to be due to the size of the font. They wouldn't release two different versions of the same story, excepting for spelling changes.
2007-07-06 08:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by Velouria 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The pages in the US version maybe smaller or have bigger font than the UK version. I don't believe that they would put something more in the US version and leave it out in the UK version.
2007-07-05 05:03:37 · answer #5 · answered by ginifamily 1 · 12⤊ 0⤋
It's the same thing, only with larger font and perhaps smaller pages (not sure about the latter though).
2007-07-07 13:39:53 · answer #6 · answered by sarah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is to do with the page, font and margin size as others have said. but also because they sometimes have pictures at the start of chapters which take up more room.. needless to say, lots on anti-american jokes regarding their reading capabilities could be made if i felt particularly venomous!!!
2007-07-05 10:25:55 · answer #7 · answered by Lau 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tiz probably printed larger.......so that the book is thicker..so that they will think they are getting more for their money.
(Wake up...why would J K Rowling write a longer version for the USA market? And then release them at the same time?)
2007-07-05 09:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by i_am_jean_s 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Larger text and they have sketches to begin each chapter
If you look on I think mugglenet you can see the American versions pictures
2007-07-06 23:19:39 · answer #9 · answered by Bea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you aren't comparing similar versions now are you? The Brits get both a child's version and an adult version (so the adults don't feel childish reading it, I suppose), the American version is designed to be a bit of both.
Additionally, are you comparing the deluxe US edition to a UK edition? The Deluxe edition has a lot of art bonuses.
And yes, the American editions aren't word for word copies of the UK edition largely due to slang (if it were written purely in the "Queen's English" then I doubt the versions would be different except for a bit of spelling). Most Americans had to figure out that "snogging" meant kissing from the context, and that is slang they left in. It wasn't until I watched Dr. Who that I was sure "Wotcher" was intended to be some odd and nonsensical semblance of a greeting.
In short, it is largely because of the dialect differences.
2007-07-05 05:25:25 · answer #10 · answered by Thought 6 · 3⤊ 6⤋