Was US POA audio modified from UK or US print?

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 95450

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "antoshachekhonte" <antoshachekhonte at y...> 
wrote:
> > Mandy here:
> > Here's another, somewhat related, fact; the reason behind why JKR 
> > uses her initials instead of her name. The publisher in the UK and 
> > the US didn't believe a female author would sell to boys!  Which to 
> > me is also insulting.  The sheer arrogance of publishers in both 
> > countries is staggering at times.
> > Mandy
> 
> Agreed, but (again), not to excuse Bloomsbury or Scholastic, I don't know that the 
> motivating force was arrogance as much as fear. There have been some wonderful 
women 
> authors who've created fabulous Young Adult fantasy series (Susan Cooper, Ursula Le 
> Guin, just off the top of my head) but none who have reached the JRR Tolkien or CS 
Lewis 
> level of popularity. The one exception I can think of is... E. Nesbit.
> 
> Bloomsbury was committing a comparatively huge marketing budget to an unknown 
> author. (The book didn't become a hit just because it was fabulous--they marketed the 
> heck out of it.) No doubt they were anxious that teen boys (who are notorious for 
avoiding 
> 'girl' books) not be turned off. And initials had worked so well for John Ronald Reuel 
> Tokien and Clive Staples Lewis....
> 
> Antosha, who is somewhat embarrassed to be playing devil's advocate here

Oh. I of course meant to say that there had been some wonderful women authors who had 
created fabulous YA fantasy series *before JKR*. She, of course, has made Cooper, Le 
Guin, Tolkien, Lewis and every other author of the past hundred years--genre or 
mainstream--a commercial also-ran, quite separate from her considerable literary 
achievements.

Antosha