(PRLEAP.COM) TheOnlineBookFair.com launched to provide access to quality, non-commercialized books and educational materials in English and Spanish to any organization that can benefit from in-kind donations of children’s books.

Jill Arnold, founder of TheOnlineBookFair.com (www.theonlinebookfair.com), recognized the nationwide need for in-kind donations of new books to hospitals, libraries, childcare centers and literacy programs and created a socially-conscious program to match book fair sponsors with beneficiaries throughout the country.

According to Arnold, an online book fair can increase the number of donors. “Holding a community-wide book fair in person typically cannot draw the same ‘attendance’ as an online book fair,” said Arnold. “The flexibility of shopping directly from a full online catalog at the book fair customer’s convenience can add up to higher sales, meaning better access to quality, educational books for the customer and more free books for the sponsoring organization.

The mission to provide non-commercialized books comes on the wave of international backlash against the mass-marketing campaigns in the form of books targeted at children.
“Many of the books about the popular line of highly sexualized dolls called Bratz™ and Lil’ Bratz™ bear a recommended reading level of ages 4 to 8,” said Arnold. “We find this inappropriate and have made it our mission to only provide quality books for children.

TheOnlineBookFair.com offers books from Usborne Books, a leading publisher of educational children’s books.

Said Arnold, “Usborne Books are the perfect match for our mission because they are educational, fun and the company offers up to a fifty-percent return in free books with every book fair purchase on book fairs over five-hundred dollars.

“This allows book fair customers to purchase directly for the organization or purchase books for themselves knowing that an additional fifty-percent of every dollar spent will go straight to the organization.”

ABOUT USBORNE BOOKS — Usborne Publishing Limited produces award winning books that are of excellent quality and cover the ages of preschool to adult. A subsidiary of the publicly traded Educational Development Corporation, Usborne’s Home Business Division was established in 1989.

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For more information about TheOnlineBookFair.com and to schedule an online book fair, please visit www.theonlinebookfair.com.
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