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About Scobre
Scobre Press Corporation has been creating high interest fiction and non fiction books for students since 1999.
Scobre Press Corporation has been in business since 1999. The company was created by two 21-year-old college students who had grown up without a true love of reading. Currently 28 and 29, Brett Hodus and Scott Blumenthal have created a successful line of educational books designed to truly interest young people.
Scobre’s library consists of 29 fiction and nonfiction titles, each available on two reading levels. Scobre has sold hundreds of thousands of its books to elementary, middle, and high schools across the country.
Hodus and Blumenthal have hooked up with respected educators from around the country who have embraced their concept and passion. These educators, along with an experienced content development team, have helped to create The Dream Series and The Future Stars Series, along with the Scobre Press Reading Program.
Here's how it all began ...Hodus and Blumenthal were strangers when randomly selected as roommates on a Semester at Sea program during their senior year in college. Two months into their voyage, while traveling by ship over the Mediterranean Sea, they were discussing their future. Everything suddenly made sense to both of them--two friends would start a publishing company.
When Brett was a kid, subscriptions to Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone magazines changed his life. For Scott, it was old comic books and the sports pages in the local San Diego newspaper. They became readers, writers, and successful students through sports and their other interests. They decided to create books for the next generation of young people--books that they would have read--exciting, realistic stories centered around the interests of young people.
They knew that other publishers had tried to write these types of books. They wondered: Why didn't we want to read them? The answer was simple. These books had underestimated their audience--an audience that was constantly trying to prove their maturity. This audience is swept up in the age of reality television, text messaging, the Internet, and the Xbox. To get these kids to read, none of these factors could be ignored. The fiction and nonfiction had to be cutting edge, relevant, and exciting. The books had to be realistic, too, incorporating elements of pop culture and the modern world. Most importantly, though, the main characters had to be young people, not adults.
As the sun began to rise in the distance, they started an outline for their company. They began by posing this question: What would have made us choose to read? The answers came to them in a flash. Two hours later they had written outlines for the first three books in what they would call The Dream Series.
Exhausted, they settled on a name for their company: Scobre--like Scott and Brett. The rest is history.