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The Most Influential Children's Publisher You've Never Heard OfPosted at 8:09AM Monday 11 Mar 2013 You've probably heard of John Wood, the former Microsoft executive who quit his job to change the world. The NGO he founded in 1999 — Room to Read — has reached out to 7.5 million children and built 15,000 libraries and 1,600 schools.What you probably haven't heard is that Room to Read is also a huge publisher. In the almost 10 years since the NGO entered the publishing game, it has published more than 850 titles. That figure will hit 1,000 by the end of this year.
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