Opinion: Scholastic wrongly accused of misusing its Book Clubs to promote *gasp* video games

Scholastic Inc., a children’s book publisher, is in trouble for selling more then just books in its classroom book clubs.

Everyone remembers getting those handouts in school from Scholastic Book Clubs (or Arrow for you older kids) where you could buy all those Goosebumps books. Well, now Scholastic is in trouble for selling stickers, toys, and – yep you guessed it – video games in addition to books.

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), an advocacy group based in Boston told the The New York Times that they reviewed the fliers to find that 14% of the items were not books and 19% of the books came with additional items including stickers, board games, or trinkets.

Susan Linn, director of the campaign said that the main complaint is from parents who think…