I hate Darrel K. Sweet's hamfisted attempts at cover art so much that I think I'm going to buy the UK version of tGS, which has a simple, tasteful cover. Every time I look at some misshapen mushface on my other books, I get angry. No more!
I'm wondering what else the UK versions might do differently. The only thing I can guess is that maybe they do a find-and-replace on spelling variants like color/colour.
Do they do that? Do they do anything else differently? Any UKers or Commonwealthers in the house?
I know I can just remove the dust jacket, but I like having a dust jacket and art.
I'm wondering what else the UK versions might do differently. The only thing I can guess is that maybe they do a find-and-replace on spelling variants like color/colour.
Do they do that? Do they do anything else differently? Any UKers or Commonwealthers in the house?
I know I can just remove the dust jacket, but I like having a dust jacket and art.
I don't know how it worked originally, but the UK editions of Books 1-4 used a standard Times New Roman font rather than the one used in the US editions. However, I don't know if that was just the UK editions or if that was the US ones as well.
For the more recent books, Orbit were literally just sent the text and maps of the US edition and just stuck it in a new cover with a new copyright page and that's it. No word/replace, as that would take way too much time to do. The UK and US versions should have the same pagination as well.
The other big difference is the spine. The recent hardcovers have ROBERT JORDAN written horizontally at the top of the spine, then the Wheel/Snake logo, then the title and BOOK XX OF THE WHEEL OF TIME written vertically underneath it. I believe the US ones just have the individual volume title and that's it.
