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Scholastic Corporation () 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.

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's (See: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia).

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% recycled paper, while Scholastic Press stated that they would use a percentage of recycled paper in publishing, but declined to specify the amount *.

Smart Place For Kids

On May 8, 2006, Scholastic, ion Media Networks, NBC Universal, Corus Entertainment's Nelvana, and Classic Media and its Big Idea unit announced plans to launch a new children's entertainment endeavor spread across all medium platforms, including video-on-demand on digital cable*. The new project, "Smart Place For Kids," will feature new and library programming from the partners, each one producing a new series a year.

The primary goal for "Smart Place" will be to "champion literacy and values in the children's television category" *. Smart Place will air weekdays on i and Saturday mornings on NBC beginning in September, Telemundo on Saturday beginning in October and Sunday mornings beginning in January 2007, and a 24-hour digital television network carried on one of i's digital channels beginning in September.

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