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I am currently using Digest mode, so my apologies if this has already been
answered.

Depending on how you want to look it it, there is more than one version of
each Harry Potter book.

First, the British and American releases have different covers. In
addition, certain words were changed in the American release because the
publishing company felt that American children would not grasp some of the
British uses of certain words. The most obvious example is the title of
the first book - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" overseas, and
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US.

Second, and I believe this was what the original question referred to, an
adult version and a children's version was released in the US. The only
difference between the two was the cover. The publishing company noted how
popular the book was with the adult market, and felt that some adults may
be embarrassed to be seen with a "children's" book, so made the adult
cover less "obvious." I am fairly certain this was mentioned in Time or
Newsweek (prior to the September 20th issue of Time, where Harry graced
the cover) though I'm afraid I can't name a particular issue offhand.

Hope this helps,

Carlos Ovalle, student
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Univeristy of Texas, Austin
cjovalle@gslis.utexas.edu

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