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Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a part of the CBS Corporation.
Simon & Schuster is a major force in today’s consumer publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive cross section of first class information and entertainment, in all printed, digital, and audio formats, to a worldwide audience of readers.
Simon & Schuster consists of numerous prestigious and well known imprints, including Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner, Free Press, Atria, Fireside, Touchstone, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, and Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
Simon & Schuster publishes approximately 2000 titles annually.
Simon & Schuster has 1500 employees and can distribute its titles in more than 100 countries and territories around the world.
Simon & Schuster has publishing and distribution capabilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as an international sales presence in every major market.
In 2007, Simon & Schuster placed 140 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, including seventeen #1 bestsellers. These high profile titles included The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark, Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn, Einstein by Walter Isaacson, An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe, The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene, Become a Better You by Joel Osteen, and YOU: Staying Young by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr Mehmet C. Oz.
Bestsellers from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing Division in 2007 included Santa Claus by Rod Green, Dog by Matthew Van Fleet, Someday by Alison McGhee, Extras by Scott Westerfeld, the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale, the Olivia series by Ian Falconer, and the original Spiderwick Chronicles series as well as Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie’s Song by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.
In 2007, seven Simon & Schuster titles were named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year.”
Simon & Schuster titles frequently receive major awards, most recently including the selection of Susan Patron’s novel The Higher Power of Lucky for the 2006 Newbery Gold Medal.
In all, Simon & Schuster titles have received 54 Pulitzer Prizes, 15 National Book Awards, 14 Caldecott and 18 Newbery Medals.
In 2007, Simon & Schuster partnered with TurnHere to launch the bookvideos.tv internet channel, becoming the first publisher to systematically employ internet videos as a means of marketing our books and authors.
Simon & Schuster took an environmentally-minded step forward in 2007 kicking off a green publishing initiative that includes an industry-leading paper policy designed to promote the use of recycled fiber and paper sourced from FSC certified forests.
In January 2007, Simon & Schuster began a local publishing program in India: the first title published under the new program was Planet India by Mira Kamdar.
In 2006, Simon and Schuster began publishing in numerous newly targeted segments. It acquired Howard Books, a religious and inspirational publisher; launched Threshold Editions, an imprint for conservative readers; started a Hispanic/Latino publishing line in its Atria imprint; and launched Simon Scribbles, a coloring and activity imprint for children.
Simon & Schuster Audio is one of the original and largest audio publishers in the industry, with a list of high quality fiction and nonfiction from both Simon & Schuster and external publishing houses.
In 2007, Simon & Schuster Audio published 22 Publishers Weekly bestsellers, and garnered two Grammy Award nominations, one in the Spoken Word category for Jimmy Carter’s Sunday Mornings in Plains (as read by President Carter) and one in the Children’s Spoken Word category for Toni Morrison’s Who’s Got Game?
The Audio Division’s Pimsleur Language Program is one of the fastest growing language education series in the world.
The Audio division, in conjunction with Adult and Children’s publishing, produces the weekly SimonSays Podcast, featuring audio excerpts, author interviews, and other original content.
Through Simon & Schuster Digital, the company has taken an industry leadership position in bringing its titles into many different eBook formats, nd has nearly 4000 titles available as eBooks.
The Digital Division is also the home of SimonSays.com, where the company leverages the power of the Internet to provide readers and consumers with live author events and interviews, reading groups and book clubs, bulletin boards, email updates, access to information about more than 12,000 titles, and, as of September 2005, direct to consumer sales.
SimonSays.com receives more than 400,000 unique visitors every month and has dedicated resource sites for online and bricks-and-mortar booksellers, and the media.
Simon & Schuster publishes many of the strongest and most recognizable brands in the world of entertainment, including titles based on CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Showtime’s The L Word, and, under the Simon Spotlight imprint, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. titles featuring Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rugrats and Blue’s Clues.
Simon & Schuster is the home of MTV Books and VH1 Books, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment Books. Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books has been the publisher of Star Trek®, the most successful series in publishing history, for more than 25 years.
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