We don't have theaters, we have cinemas (a theatre is where you go to see a stage play or musical). We don't have interstates, we have motorways. We don't have highways, we have A-roads or maybe dual carriageways. We don't have sidewalks, we have pavements. localized spelling - other than the occasional word spelled with 'ou' instead of just plain 'o'? Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between U.K. Also, because British publishing is Different and can re-print on paper cost-effectively for as few as 100 books, all of them are in print except "Season of Skulls" (which ain't out yet and won't be available in paperback until 4-12 months after the hardcover comes out next week). Luckily, they settled on a consistent cover design language years ago and have stuck to it, apart from a tweak for the New Management books (different title font, different series logo on the spine). Upshot: the only way to buy a consistent and uniform edition of the Laundry Files and New Management series is to get the Orbit paperback editions. Only books expected to sell well got hardcovers in the early 00's, though, and it took until "The Rhesus Chart" for the Laundry to build to that level.) (The mass market disintegrated in the UK in the early 1990s, so all UK paperbacks are trade books. The Laundry books have been published in the UK by Orbit and only Orbit, but the first four books never got a hardcover release. So the US hardcovers are all different sizes and designs. Also, Ace changed their cover design template halfway through. (The US mass market channel has pretty much collapsed, being replaced by ebooks as the "cheap reading edition" format: only runaway bestsellers get a mass market paperback these days). Note: In the US, the Laundry Files have gone through three hardback publishers (Golden Gryphon, Ace, now Tor.com) and have not been published in mass-market paperback since "The Annihilation Score".
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