Sorcerer stone v Philosopher Stone WAS: Hermione

[sistermagpie]

> Geoff:
> Precisely. I found the suggestion that the title was changed because US 
> readers would not make any sense of it was ludicrous, to put it mildly.

Magpie:
Well, yeah. But that wasn't the suggestion of anyone at Scholastic. Of course US readers would make sense of it. They just wanted them to make the right sense of it. 

Geoff:
 An attractive and 
> tempting picture. Now surely any potential young reader with good reading 
> skills and possessing the concentration to settle down to this volume would 
> go on and read the synopsis on the back cover. That's what I do with any 
> book I'm considering, and not only with fiction.

Magpie:
Which goes along with the theme of the thread, which is making sure to treat every reader as the one with good reading skills and concentration who is also the type of person to look at every title, cover art and synopsis for every book. I've never worked in advertising but I suspect that attitude goes against the way they approach everything. Not every book title gets chosen on the basis of telling people about one specific thing in the book. With this book the US publishers wanted to do that so they did. 

-m