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Usborne children's books and the BNP

Lancaster Unity | 07.04.2008 19:34 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | Liverpool

Anything for a quick buck!

Usborne is a major independent UK publishing company that publishes almost every type of children's book for every age from baby to teenager. As such, it has a well-deserved reputation for delivering top-quality books and it is rare to find a home or nursery that doesn't have several well-thumbed Usborne books tucked away somewhere.

One of the innovative ways that Usborne goes about its business is via what the company refers to as Usborne organisers: that is, somebody home-based who sells the books for a commission. Nursery organisers frequently do this as it enables them to obtain discount books and to make a little money on the side by selling direct to parents. Generally, the profits made - and they can be substantial - are put back into the nursery/playgroup. Commission varies but starts at around 25%.

So what does Usborne have to do with the BNP?

Not a great deal as far as we know, but as we are all aware, the BNP is full of money-making scams and schemes and one of its current schemes is, we have found, selling Usborne books.

The BNP's childen's books section - sold via Excalibur, its cheap-tat-flogging arm - is a tad limited. For instance, while it sells Usborne's books on Nelson, Florence Nightingale and Saint George and the Dragon (no surprise there), it manages to avoid offering some of Usbornes other history books on subjects such as the Holocaust, Anne Frank or Martin Luther King...

Much more here:  http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/04/usborne-childrens-books-and-bnp.html

Lancaster Unity
- Homepage: http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/

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Rather tenuous link

07.04.2008 22:43

Is it just me or is this rather a tenuous news story, rather a desperate attempt to bring an anti-BNP angle on something non-newsworthy?

What next? "UNCOVERED: BNP member shops at the Co-op"? "SHOCK HORROR: BNP serve PG tips at evil meetings"?

Ed


Hah!

07.04.2008 23:31

I doubt if Usborne books will treat it as tenuous - all those multi-racial nurseries and playgroups learning that its books are sold through the BNP. This is just the BNP trying to sneakily earn a few quid from twisting the rules. They're fascists - let's hope Usborne kicks them in the balls.

Sooo


Usbourne should cut links with these holocaust deniers now

08.04.2008 00:46

Usbourne should cut links with these holocaust deniers now

james


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