Simon & Schuster Overview
• Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster.
• Simon & Schuster is a part of 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, Gallery Books, Howard Books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Little Simon, and Simon Spotlight.
• Simon & Schuster publishes approximately 2000 titles annually.
• Simon & Schuster has approximately 1350 employees and can distribute its titles in more than 150 countries and territories around the world.
• Simon & Schuster has publishing and distribution capabilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and India, as well as an international sales presence in every major market.
• In 2010, Simon & Schuster placed 154 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, including fourteen #1 bestsellers. These high profile titles included Broke by Glenn Beck, Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King, Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush, House Rules by Jodi Picoult, Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward, The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark, Women Food and God by Geneen Roth, American Assassin by Vince Flynn, The Power by Rhonda Byrne, and Little Bee by Chris Cleave.
• Bestsellers from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing Division in 2010 included The Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell, The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Thirst by Christopher Pike, Olivia Goes to Venice by Ian Falconer, and Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.
• 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. Bestselling titles from Simon & Schuster Audio in 2010 included Good, The Big Short by Michael Lewis, Broke by Glenn Beck and American Assassin by Vince Flynn, and The Power by Rhonda Byrne.
• The Audio Division’s Pimsleur Language Program is one of the fastest growing language education series in the world. In 2010, in partnership with the U.S.O., Pimsleur introduced new programs in Dari and Pashto for U.S. armed forces personnel stationed or deploying to Afghanistan.
• Simon & Schuster has taken an industry leadership position in bringing its titles to all available ebook retailers and devices, and has more than 11,000 titles available as eBooks.
• Simon & Schuster is at the forefront of publishing new formats that take advantage of new technologies and devices, appealing to today's on-the-go, multimedia reader.
• In partnership with CBS News, Simon & Schuster imprints published enhanced ebook editions of Nixonland by Rick Perlstein (Scribner) and The Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine and Lisa McCubbin, featuring historic CBS News footage integrated throughout text.
• SimonandSchuster.com receives more than 800,000 unique visitors monthly and serves as an online location where readers and fans can find easily accessible information about their favorite books and authors, including video and audio interviews, clips, news, national and local media and bookstore appearances, and engage in a community of like-minded readers.
• Simon & Schuster also operates dedicated resource sites for librarians and academics (www.simonandschuster.net) and booksellers and media (www.simonandschuster.biz)
• In 2010, fifteen Simon & Schuster titles were named to New York Times list of 100 “Notable Books of the Year,” and two books, The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee and The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie were selected for the prestigious "10 Best Books of the Year" list.
• In 2009 Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won the Grammy Award for “Best Spoken Word Album. Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking and Jimmy Carter’s We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land are finalists for the 2010 Grammy.
• In all, Simon & Schuster titles have received 55 Pulitzer Prizes, 15 National Book Awards, 14 Caldecott and 19 Newbery Medals.
• 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 publishes many of the strongest and most recognizable brands in the world of entertainment, including titles based on CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Bro Code based on “How I Met Your Mother,” and Showtime’s The L Word, and, under the Simon Spotlight imprint, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. titles featuring The Backyardigans, Wonder Pets and Avatar.
• Simon & Schuster is the home of successful brand-based publishing including MTV Books, and 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.
