The first book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, was originally titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was first published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom in 1997. A year later, in 1998, Scholastic Corporation published the book in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The change in the title of the American version stemmed from the fact that Scholastic Corporation believed that children in American may not be excited to read a book with the word "philosopher" in its title. "Sorcerer," they believed, fit in better with the theme of the book, which revolved around magic. Consequently, with J.K. Rowling's approval, the title of the book was changed in the American version. A few other minor alterations were also made in the American edition of the book. Some of these were changes in the spellings (to make them better suited to the American vocabulary), and changes in certain words to fit them better into the American context (like boot instead of trunk, lie-in instead of nap, chat up instead of hit on, and lift instead of elevator).
The first book in the Harry Potter series was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published in the United Kingdom in 1997. It was first published in the United States a year later as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The American rights for the book were bought by the Scholastic Corporation. They made a few changes to the original book to make it more appealing for an American audience. The most obvious change would be the title itself. The American publishers felt that children wouldn't really appreciate a book with the word "philosopher" in the title. As the book was an adventure story involving a boy wizard, they thought it would be better to replace the word "philosopher" with "sorcerer." This change, it was thought, would better reflect the content of the book as well as making it sound more exciting to its target audience.
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