From: Melanie Colbert <melaniecolbert>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:55:01 -0400

Actually, the Canadian editions I own have the Raincoast imprint on the spine and title page; and, though the copyright page acknowledges that the book was first published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury, it does say
"Published in Canada by Raincoast Books." (I'm looking at THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. The others are probably the same, but I'll wake up a bevy of little boys if I go look.)


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I'm not sure if this technicality is of great interest to the list serve, but I believe that Raincoast is the Canadian "distributor" of Harry Potter, just as Allen & Unwin is the distributor in Australia. So it's not quite accurate to say that they "co-publish."

I think you'll find the Bloomsbury imprint on the books in Canada, indicating that Raincoast is distributing Bloomsbury's edition, rather than publishing one of its own. One practcal result of this distinction is that the books in Canada and Australia are identical (jacket and interiors) to the UK editions.


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