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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 5 December 1973; 51 years ago (1973-12-05) |
| Founder | Peter Usborne |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Distribution | HarperCollins (UK trade, US trade, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India) Penguin Random House (South Africa) Educational Development Corporation (USA direct sales)[1][2] |
| Fiction genres | Children's literature |
| No. of employees | 210 (2014)[3] |
| Official website | usborne.com |
Usborne Publishing, often called Usborne Books, is a British publisher of children's books. Founded byPeter Usborne in 1973,[4] Usborne Publishing uses an in-house team of writers, editors, and designers. One of its sales channels is Usborne Books at Home, amulti-level marketing operation founded in 1981.[5][6] In the United States, Usborne books are sold and distributed to the retail trade throughHarperCollins.[7] Direct customer sales are made through PaperPie, the home business division of Educational Development Corporation.[8]
Quicklinks were first introduced in 2000 as a way to incorporate the internet into modern reading habits. Peter Usborne has been quoted in the trade magazineThe Bookseller as saying: "I initially thought that the internet would kill non-fiction, because teachers would tell children to use the internet to help with homework. But if you key in 'castles' [on a search engine], you get 900,000 possible websites. The internet is an inadequate resource for children."[9]
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