Re: How about some kids books?

Posted by Minnie-Haha on May 17, 2005, at 10:01:46

In reply to Re: How about some kids books?, posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2005, at 6:47:58

> I love the Harry Potter books.
> In the UK it is "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" Whereas in the US they turned it into "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" What was up with that?????
>
> Apparantly 'philosopher' had some funny kind of connotation in the US. Something like that... Anyone know???
I bet they did some kind of marketing research and figured they could sell a lot more copies using "sorcerer". "Philosopher" probably sounds more brainy and "sorcerer" more mysterious and action-packed. Not all of us Yanks are so taken with action, Action, ACTION, but enough are to catch the attention of marketing types.

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