Grant Will Send 500,000 Books to Affected Areas. First Book Receives Oprah's Angel Network Book Club Award for $250,000 to Support Book Relief for Katrina Victims.

Book Relief is the nation's largest and most comprehensive book distribution relief program and includes publishers large and small, such as HarperCollins Publishers, Disney, Townsend Press, Random House, Scholastic, American Girl, Reader's Digest, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin. To date, Book Relief has received commitments for more than four million books from these and other publishers, and additional commitments are expected.