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I wouldn't necessarily say that I was insulted, but I think it's stupid. We had this discussion on another board, and everybody said that, when they were younger, they picked up lots of things from British culture just by reading books written in Britain . . . they didn't need them to be "Americanized," they figured things out as they read. And I think the publishers are not giving American kids of today nearly enough credit.
For whoever asked why it was changed from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone," it was because the publishers thought that American children would find the word "philosopher" off-putting and boring, where "sorcerer" sounded way more interesting and more likely to induce kids to read it.
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