Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic ( orig.: Scholastic Corporation) is an American publishing company that specializes in educational content for school and educational purposes. The publisher should have become best known by owning the rights to the Harry Potter series in the United States.

The Publisher

Scholastic distributes its products in addition to the regular book trade over the Internet or through book clubs and fairs. The company has lately their business greatly enlarged through acquisition of various other companies, such as Klutz Press, Tom Snyder Productions ( a learning software producer ), and especially by the literary publisher Grolier, which by the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and The New Book Of knowledge is known. Scholastic has company stock on the Nasdaq financial index.

After the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2005, the edition of the book better when Canadian publisher Raincoast Books was the publisher target of a campaign that emanated from Greenpeace and the National Wildlife Federation, which had the goal to move consumers to Buy as Raincoast Books praising to print the book on entirely recycled paper, whereas Scholastic no precise information made ​​to the printing paper.

Currently, Scholastic is owned by Richard Robinson, who serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Company President. Under his leadership, the organization achieved in 2005, 2.079 billion U.S. dollars, about half of which was net profit.

Company divisions and subsidiaries

  • Scholastic divisions:
  • Scholastic Press
  • Arthur A. Levine Books
  • Cartwheel Books
  • The Chicken House ( Chicken House Germany is a joint venture of The Chicken House with the German publisher Carlsen, the part of the Swedish Bonnier Group )
  • 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 Books Clubs
  • Scholastic Classroom Magazines
  • Scholastic Education
  • Scholastic Media
  • Scholastic Library Publishing
  • Scholastic National Service Organization
  • EScholastic
  • Lectorum Publications
  • Scholastic Canada Ltd..

Examples of prior art publications

  • Animorphs
  • Goose pimples
  • Harry Potter ( U.S. version )
  • Captain Superslip ( Captain Underpants )
  • Star Wars
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