Scholastic Corporation
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Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is an American book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States publishing rights to the Harry Potter book series.[1]
Scholastic has grown its business most recently by acquiring other media companies, including Klutz Press, the animated television production company Soup2Nuts, the K-12 educational software publisher Tom Snyder Productions, and most significantly the reference publisher Grolier, which publishes the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and The New Book of Knowledge.
Prior to and after Scholastic's 2005 release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the publisher was the focus of a campaign by two environmental organizations, Greenpeace and the National Wildlife Federation. The environmental organizations advised consumers in the United States who planned to buy Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to do so from the book's Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books, instead of Scholastic, the book's American publisher. Raincoast Books stated that they would print the book on 100 percent recycled paper, while Scholastic Press stated that they would use a percentage of recycled paper in publishing, but declined to specify the amount. [2]
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[edit] Corporate divisions and subsidiaries
- Scholastic Marketing Partners
- Scholastic Trade Books
- Imprints:
- Scholastic Press
- Arthur A. Levine Books
- Cartwheel Books
- The Chicken House
- Graphix
- Little Shepherd
- Michael di Capua Books
- Orchard Books
- PUSH
- Scholastic en español
- Scholastic Paperbacks
- Scholastic Reference
- The Blue Sky Press
- Scholastic Book Fairs
- Scholastic Book Clubs
- Scholastic At Home
- Scholastic Classroom Magazines
- Lectorum Publications
- Scholastic Education
- Scholastic Media
- Scholastic Library Publishing
- Scholastic National Service Organization
- eScholastic
[edit] List of publications
- Animorphs
- The Baby-sitters Club
- Bionicle
- Bone (colorized editions)
- Captain Underpants
- Clifford the Big Red Dog (series)
- Charlie Bone
- Chestnut Hill
- Dear America
- Deltora
- Everworld
- Genny in a Bottle series
- Guardians of Ga'hoole
- Guild of Specialists
- Goosebumps
- Geronimo Stilton series
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Harry Potter series (in the United States)
- Heartland
- Inkheart
- I-Spy
- Keys to the Kingdom
- Lego Exo-Force
- Lego Knight's Kingdom
- The Magic School Bus series
- Parent&Child
- PLAY! Scholastic (magazine)
- Reddy, Freddy!
- Remnants
- Sixth Grade Secrets
- Snow Spider
- The Gate Keepers'
- The Revenge of the Shadow King
- The Underland Chronicles
- Star Wars series
- T*Witches
- The Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling
- You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy
- You Wouldn't Want to be a Roman Gladiator
[edit] Reference
- ^ Corporate profile on Yahoo!
- ^ Article on Greenpeace's request to U.S. consumers to buy Canadian editions of Harry Potter, published on cbc.ca.
