Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of

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. It was founded in

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on January 2, 1924 by

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and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.

History

Early years

In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, a

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enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of ''

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'' crossword puzzles, which were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity.Frederick Lewis Allen, ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', p. 165. . At the time, Simon was a piano salesman and Schuster was editor of an automotive trade magazine. They pooled , equivalent to $ today, to start a company that published crossword puzzles. The new publishing house used "fad" publishing to publish books that exploited current fads and trends. Simon called this "planned publishing". Instead of signing authors with a planned manuscript, they came up with their own ideas, and then hired writers to carry them out. In the 1930s, the publisher moved to what has been referred to as "Publisher's Row" on

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, New York.

Expansion

In 1939, Simon & Schuster financially backed Robert Fair de Graff to found

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, America's first paperback publisher. In 1942, Simon & Schuster and Western Printing launched the

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series in cooperation with the Artists and Writers Guild. In 1944, Marshall Field III, owner of the ''

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'', purchased Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books. The company was sold back to Simon and Schuster following his death for $1 million. In the 1950s and 1960s, many publishers including Simon & Schuster turned toward educational publishing due to the baby boom market. Pocket Books focused on paperbacks for the educational market instead of textbooks and started the Washington Square Press imprint in 1959. By 1964 it had published over 200 titles and was expected to put out another 400 by the end of that year. Books published under the imprint included classic reprints such as ''

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'', '' Ivanhoe'', ''

Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and '' Tom Sawyer, ...

'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 1967, Simon & Schuster acquired Monarch Press Publishing, Inc., along with its extensive line of college and high school study guides published. In 1960, Richard Simon died of a heart attack; six years later, Max Schuster retired and sold his half of Simon & Schuster to Leon Shimkin. Shimkin then merged Simon & Schuster with Pocket Books under the name of Simon & Schuster. In 1968, editor-in-chief

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, who worked at Simon & Schuster since 1955 and edited several bestsellers including

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's ''

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'', left abruptly to work at competitor

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, taking other influential S&S employees,

Nina Bourne Nina Bourne (1916–2010) was a publishing executive for more than 70 years for both Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf. She was known for her marketing and advertising campaigns for many books including ''Catch-22'' and the '' Eloise'' series of ...

, and Tony Schulte. Simon & Schuster was acquired by

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in an 8-for-1 stock swap on January 28, 1975. Four years later in 1979, Richard Snyder was named CEO of the company. Over the next several years he would help grow the company substantially. SimonSchusterBuilding

1980s

After the death of Gulf+Western head Charles Bluhdorn on February 19, 1983, the company made the decision to diversify. Bluhdorn's successor Martin Davis told ''

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'', "Society was undergoing dramatic changes so that there was a greater need for textbooks, maps, and educational information. We saw the opportunity to diversify into those areas, which are more stable and more profitable than trade publishing." In 1984, Simon & Schuster with CEO

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acquired educational publisher Esquire Corporation, owner of companies including

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(and former owner of '' Esquire'' magazine), for $180 million. Prentice Hall was brought into the company fold in 1985 for over $700 million and was viewed by some executives to be a catalyst for change for the company as a whole. This acquisition was followed by Silver Burdett in 1986, mapmaker Gousha in 1987 and Charles E. Simon in 1988. Part of the acquisition included educational publisher Allyn & Bacon which, according to then editor and chief

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, became the "nucleus of S&S's educational and informational business." Three California educational companies were also purchased between 1988 and 1990—Quercus, Fearon Education and Janus Book Publishers. In all, Simon & Schuster spent more than $1 billion in acquisitions between 1983 and 1991. In the 1980s, Snyder also made an unsuccessful bid toward video publishing which was believed to have led to the company's success in the audiobook business. Snyder was dismayed to realize that Simon & Schuster did not own the video rights to ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'', a huge bestseller at the time and that the video company producing the VHS was making more money on the video. This prompted Snyder to ask editors to obtain video rights for every new book. Agents were often reluctant to give these up—which meant the S&S Video division never took off. According to Korda, the audio rights expanded into the audio division which by the 1990s would be a major business for Simon & Schuster. In 1989, Gulf and Western Inc., owner of Simon & Schuster, changed its name to Paramount Communications Inc.

1990s

In 1990, ''The New York Times'' described Simon & Schuster as the largest book publisher in the United States with sales of $1.3 billion the previous year. That same year, Simon & Schuster acquired the children's publisher Green Tiger Press. In 1993, Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan (including

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, Free Press, and Jossey-Bass), and changed its name to Paramount. Viacom then bought Paramount in 1994 and changed the name back to Simon & Schuster. Macmillan was acquired for US$552.8 million. Later that year, Snyder was suddenly fired from S&S and was replaced by the company's president and chief operating officer Jonathan Newcomb. Simon & Schuster then sold several peripheral assets, such as selling Charles E. Simon Co. to CDB Infotek. Gousha was sold to

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in 1996. In 1994, S&S acquired the software operations of

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. Later that year, Simon & Schuster (through Paramount) launched a software publisher in partnership with Davidson & Associates named Simon & Schuster Interactive. The studio published video games such as ''

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'', ''

Deer Avenger ''Deer Avenger'' is a series of video games about a deer who hunts humans. It was developed by Simon & Schuster Interactive and Hypnotix. It is a parody of the '' Deer Hunter'' series of games. Games * ''Deer Avenger'' * '' Deer Avenger 2: Dee ...

'', ''

I.M. Meen ''I.M. Meen'' is a 1995 fantasy educational game for DOS to teach grammar to children. It is named for its villain, Ignatius Mortimer Meen, a "diabolical librarian" who lures young readers into an enchanted labyrinth and imprisons them with monste ...

'', '' Chill Manor'', ''

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'', and games based on

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's characters. S&S Interactive shut down in 2003. In 1998, Viacom sold Simon & Schuster's educational operations (including Prentice Hall, Macmillan, and Jossey-Bass) to Pearson plc, the global publisher and then owner of Penguin and the ''

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''; Pearson then merged the operations with

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to form Pearson Education. The professional and reference operations were sold to

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2000s

In 2002, Simon & Schuster acquired its Canadian distributor Distican. Simon & Schuster began publishing in Canada in 2013. At the end of 2005, Viacom split into two companies:

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(which inherited S&S and

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), and the other retaining the Viacom name. Also in 2005, Simon & Schuster acquired Strebor Books International, which was founded in 1999 by author Kristina Laferne Roberts, who has written under the pseudonym "Zane." A year later, in 2006, Simon & Schuster launched the conservative imprint

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. In 2009, Simon & Schuster signed a multi-book and co-publishing deal with Glenn Beck which fell over many of its imprints and included adult non-fiction, fiction, children, and YA literature as well as e-book and audiobook originals. As part of CBS, Simon & Schuster has been the primary publisher for books related to various media franchises owned by and/or aired on CBS such as CSI. The company has also held a license to publish books in the '' Star Trek'' franchise under

2010s

In 2011, Simon & Schuster signed a number of co-publishing deals. Glenn Beck signed a new co-publishing deal with Simon & Schuster for his own imprint, Mercury Ink. Under Atria, Simon & Schuster also launched a publishing venture with

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called Cash Money Content. On April 11, 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed ''

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'', naming

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, Simon & Schuster, and four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that they conspired to fix prices for

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, and weaken

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's position in the market, in violation of

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. Simon & Schuster reorganized all of their imprints under four main groups in 2012. The four groups included the Atria Publishing Group, the Scribner Publishing Group, the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group and the Gallery Publishing Group. According to CEO

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, the divisions were created to align imprints that complement one another and that the structure would "lead to a sharper editorial focus for our imprints even as it takes consideration of the natural affinities among them." In 2012, Simon & Schuster launched a self-publishing arm of the company, Archway Publishing. On November 14, 2013, Simon & Schuster signed a co-publishing agreement with former

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shortstop, Derek Jeter, to launch Jeter Publishing. In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which Simon & Schuster and the other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing. In 2014, Simon & Schuster signed a partnership deal with Amazon over ebooks and also launched a new speculative fiction imprint. On October 21, 2014, Simon & Schuster signed a multi-year partnership deal with

in negotiations concerning the price of e-books. Simon & Schuster also launched a new science fiction imprint called Simon451 that would publish titles across science fiction and fantasy with an emphasis on ebooks and online communities. The name of the imprint was inspired by

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's book ''

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'' (the temperature at which books burn). Bradbury's classic is also published by Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster expanded beyond book publishing in 2015 by offering a new business model and additional services for authors. In 2015, Simon & Schuster announced the creation of a new publishing unit and imprint called North Star Way. The imprint would publish non-fiction titles such as self-improvement, inspirational and mind-body-spirit titles. In addition, the group would also serve as a platform and set of services for authors that go beyond what a traditional book publisher offers to find their audience. The services include helping authors expand their reach through online courses, seminars, workshops, mobile applications, video and audiobooks, sponsorships and business partnerships, and podcasts. North Star Way sits within the

Gallery Publishing Group Gallery Publishing Group is a general interest publisher and a division of Simon & Schuster which houses the imprints Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Scout Press, Gallery 13, and Saga Press. Jen Bergstrom is the Senior Vice President and Publisher. ...

division. According to Michele Martin, publisher and founder, the name North Star reflects their mission, "to publish books that will help readers find the path to a better life, and to be a guide for our authors, not only through publication of their books but also in the many other activities that can help their message find the widest possible audience." In an interview with '' Kirkus Reviews'', Michele Martin expanded that North Star Way, "aims to meet consumers where they are, in whatever form of media they consume. We expand the ideas in the books into a variety of platforms." The name prompted

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to attempt to register the name of their superhero

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in February 2015. The application was denied as Simon & Schuster had already made a trademark application for North Star Way in January. Simon & Schuster launched SimonSays.com a portal for online video courses in 2016, along with Scout Press, a new literary fiction imprint under Gallery Books Group. They also launched North Star Way, a platform-based program to provide authors with services beyond publishing including brand management, online courses, sponsorship, and business partnerships. Also as of 2016, Simon & Schuster had more than 18k e-books available for sale and signed a deal to distribute Start Publishing LLC, a catalog of 7,000 e-book titles. In 2019, CBS and Viacom reunited to form ViacomCBS. As a result, Simon & Schuster became part of the newly formed ViacomCBS. Since February 15, 2022, ViacomCBS is known as

2020s

In March 2020, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish announced the company's intention to sell the Simon & Schuster division, as it "does not have significant connection for our broader business." Bakish expected a sale to close in 2020, although the

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delayed that process. In September 2020, German media group Bertelsmann (which owns

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) announced that it was interested in acquiring Simon & Schuster. According to Bertelsmann chief executive and chairman Thomas Rabe (manager), Thomas Rabe, "We've been the most active player on the consolidation of the book publishing market in the last 10 years. We combined Penguin Group, Penguin and Random House very successfully to create by far the largest book publisher in the world, actually the only global book publisher. Given this position we would, of course, be interested in Simon & Schuster." Vivendi (which owns French publisher Editis) and News Corp (which owns HarperCollins) were also named as contenders in acquiring Simon & Schuster. Paramount Global, ViacomCBS expected the bids to be placed before Thanksgiving 2020 (November 26). On November 25, 2020, ViacomCBS announced it would sell Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann subsidiary Penguin Random House for $2.175 billion. The deal had been expected to close in 2022. The deal, however, was blocked by US federal judge Florence Y. Pan on October 31, 2022. An appealing to the court ruling was announced a day later by Bertelsmann, but it was ultimately canceled on November 21. In 2021, Simon & Schuster made book deals with former Trump administration officials, such as Vice President of the United States, Vice President Mike Pence and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. This prompted protests among Simon & Schuster staff. On November 2, 2021, the United States Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block Penguin Random House's proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The lawsuit argues that the acquisition would create a publisher with too much influence over books and author payments. A federal judge sided with the plaintiff, leading Paramount to nullify the deal in November 2022. In 2022, Simon & Schuster employee Filippo Bernardini was arrested for the 2016–2021 literary phishing thefts. The company released a statement saying they were "shocked and horrified to learn today of the allegations of fraud and identity theft by an employee.”

People

Editors and publishers

* Clifton Fadiman Jr., editor-in-chief * Jack Goodman, editor-in-chief * Jerome Weidman, editor-in-chief * Joe Barnes, editor-in-chief * Justin Kaplan * Max Schuster (editor-in-chief) *

(editor-in-chief) * Quincy Howe (editor-in-chief) *

* Peter Schwed * Wallace Brockway (editor-in-chief) * William Rossa Cole, William Cole *Maxwell Perkins

Authors

Simon & Schuster has published thousands of books from thousands of authors. This list represents some of the more notable authors (those who are culturally significant or have had several bestsellers, meaning they have sold at least 3,000 books). For a more extensive list see List of Simon & Schuster authors. * Andrew Solomon * Annie Proulx * Audrey Niffenegger * Bob Woodward * Carrie Fisher * Chapo Trap House * Cornelius Ryan * Dan Brown * David McCullough * Dick Cheney * Donald Trump * Doris Kearns Goodwin * Doris Lessing * Ernest Hemingway * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Frank McCourt * Glenn Beck * Kayleigh McEnany * Ludwig Bemelmans * Harold Robbins * Hendrik Willem van Loon * Hillary Clinton * Howard Stern * Hunter S. Thompson * Jack Paar * Jackie Collins * James Riley (writer), James Riley * Janet Evanovich * Jimmy Carter * Jodi Picoult * John Bolton * John Irving *

* Jennette McCurdy * Judith Rossner * Kay Thompson * Larry McMurtry * Lana Del Rey * Maddox (writer), Maddox * Mark R. Levin * Mary Higgins Clark * P. G. Wodehouse * Peter Hook * Philippa Gregory * R. L. Stine * Sandra Brown * Shel Silverstein * Siddhartha Mukherjee * Sister Souljah * Stephen E. Ambrose * Stephen King * Thomas Berger (novelist), Thomas Berger * Thomas Wolfe * Ursula K. Le Guin * Walter Isaacson * Zoella

Logo

According to one source, The Sower, the logo of Simon & Schuster, was inspired by the 1850 Jean-François Millet painting of the same name. According to

, the colophon is a small reproduction of ''The Sower'' by Sir John Everett Millais.Business Timeline

Imprints

Adult publishing

* Adams Media, located in Avon, Massachusetts * Atria Publishing Group ** 37 INK, publisher of African-American and other diverse voices ** Atria Publishing Group, Atria Books, general publisher ** Atria Español, publisher of Spanish language books with a focus on United States Spanish speakers ** Atria Unbound, general publisher of ebook editions of Atria ** Beyond Words Publishing co-venture with Atria specializing in the mind-body-spirit category ** Cash Money Content, a co-venture with

** Emily Bestler Books, publisher of fiction and non-fiction ** Enliven Books, publisher of spiritual and wellness books ** Howard Books, publisher of Christian books ** Keywords Press, publisher of books by Internet personalities ** Marble Arch Press, co-publishing agreement with the United Kingdom publisher Short Books ** Atria Publishing Group, One Signal Publishers, nonfiction publisher founded by Julia Cheiffetz ** Atria Publishing Group, Simon Element, publishes nonfiction books addressing foundational topics. ** Strebor Books International, publisher of African-American books as well as Black Erotica ** Washington Square Press, paperback publisher of classic and contemporary fiction * Avid Reader Press * Gallery Books Group ** Gallery Books, general interest publisher ** Karen Hunter, Karen Hunter Publishing, general interest imprint founded by journalist Karen Hunter ** Mercury Ink, co-publishing deal with Glenn Beck and Mercury Radio Arts ** Gallery Publishing Group, MTV Entertainment Books (formerly MTV Books), young adult and pop-culture imprint ** North Star Way Books, inspirational non-fiction imprint with additional services for authors **

, mass market imprint of the Gallery Publishing Group ** Gallery Publishing Group, Pocket Star, e-book only imprint of the Gallery Publishing Group ** Scout Press, publisher of literary fiction **

, conservative imprint ** Twelve, an imprint that publishes each book with a month-long launch ** Gallery 13, a graphic novel imprint * Charles Scribner's Sons, Scribner ** Scribner, publisher of fiction and non-fiction books * Simon & Schuster (the flagship imprint) ** Folger Shakespeare Library, publishes print and ebooks of Shakespeare works ** Simon451, publisher of speculative fiction and fantasy ** Saga Press (specializes in science fiction and fantasy.)

Children's publishing

* Aladdin Paperbacks, Aladdin, publisher of picture and chapter books for middle-grade readers * Atheneum Books, Atheneum, publisher of literary middle grade, teen and picture books * Beach Lane Books, publisher of picture books, founded in 2008 and located in San Diego * Little Simon, publisher of children's books * Margaret K. McElderry Books, boutique imprint publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction for children and teens * MTV Books, pop culture imprint relaunched in 2021 * Paula Wiseman Books, publisher of picture books, novelty books and novels for children * Salaam Reads, imprint for Muslim children's literature by Simon & Schuster's Children's Division * Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, flagship imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children's Division * Simon Pulse, publisher of teen books, launched in 1999 as Pocket Pulse and renamed in 2001 * Simon Spotlight, publisher focused on licensed properties for children

Audio

* Pimsleur Language Programs, language courses * Simon & Schuster Audio, Audio division of Simon & Schuster

Former imprints

* Archway (children's imprint of Pocket Books, merged into Aladdin Paperbacks) * Bookthrift (Inexpensive reprints, discontinued) * Earthlight (UK science fiction imprint, discontinued) * Downtown Press (women's fiction, discontinued) * Fireside Books * Free Press * Green Tiger Press * Half Moon Books * Inner Sanctum Mysteries * Linden Press * Long Shadow Books * Minstrel Books (children's imprint of Pocket Books, merged into Aladdin Paperbacks) * Poseidon Press (operated 1982–1993) * Richard Gallen Books * Simon & Schuster Interactive (1995–2003) * Sonnet Books * Summit Books, run by James H. Silberman (operated 1976–1991) * Tiller Press (specializes in "practical nonfiction": diet, wellness, home design.) * Touchstone * Wallaby Books

References

External links

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History

Early years

Expansion

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

People

Editors and publishers

Authors

Logo

Imprints

Adult publishing

Children's publishing

Audio

Former imprints

See also

References

Further reading

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