They’re not.
While the earlier books differed slightly in particular words that were replaced for American readers (like changing “bin” to “garbage can” and “jumper” to “sweater”) the US Editions of the books have, on the whole, the same amount of text as their British counterparts. So, why do the US books always have more pages?
Very simple. Although the font size and style used in each of the countries is basically the same, the US book page size is different than the UK books.
The US books have a physically bigger page size, and a text-area size of 4 1/4″ by 5 3/4″. The UK books have a physically smaller page size, but they have a smaller margin size than the US pages, and they have a very similar text-area size of 4″ by 5 1/2″.
The big difference between the editions is the lines per page. The US editions have a maximum of 29 lines of text per page. But, a smaller between-line-spacing allows the UK editions to have a maximum of 33 lines per page. Therefore, the UK editions have many more words per page than the US editions.
That’s why the UK editions have less pages overall, because they have more words per page than the US editions.
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