Anybody upset with the different book titles UK vs. USA?

[star_song]

I live in the US and quite frankly it is really upsetting to me that great works of literature are renamed... I can not tell you how many instances where i have found this such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, imagine the shock when I found out that a book soo dear to me's proper name was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which makes completely more sense!

Another instance is The Naming by Alison Croggon, otherwise titled The Gift everywhere else which is also a better title.

Lastly The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman I know that it is properly titled the Northern Lights.

If i was an author I think i would be upset if every country wanted to rename my book that i wrote with a different title, people usually spend ages working on titles for books...

well long story short, i just wondered if anyone else felt the same annoyance I do.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I agree that the re-naming makes little sense - we're an international consumer market, now, so renaming individual titles in apparently minor and petty ways simply causes confusion and potentially damages the branding of products.

 

[rune]

I find this confusing too as sometimes I've thought it was a different book!