WHY a UK (PS) vs. US (SS) edition

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30746

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., mollypickle at h... wrote:
 
>     I am very disappointed that J.K. Rowling went along with the 
> publisher's inane suggestions as to "watering down" the books for 
> American audiences. There's already enough of a perception out there 
> that Americans are stupid enough culturally and isolated from the 
> rest of the world; 

Remember, JKR agreed to this bowdlerization under pressure from Scholastic, 
before the books were such a huge success.  I assume that they pretty much 
forced her to do it, which is why I place all the blame on the *American* VP 
from Scholastic.  It doesn't take much reading between the lines of the Levine 
interview to see that it was all his idea and she just went along with it 
feeling powerless to contradict him.  I'll say it one more time: It just bugs me 
to no end that this foolish attitude was perpetrated by senior staff at a  
major US publisher of kids' books.