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His partner Max Schuster wrote a column of the same name for The New York Times. The title was also the name of the editorial room between their offices. [5] Michael Korda said that when he arrived to work as an editor at Simon & Schuster in 1958, he found a bronze plaque on his desk designed by Richard Simon that said, "Give the reader a break ...
Simon & Schuster offered Shimkin a $25,000 bonus for finding the book How to Win Friends, but Shimkin turned it down and asked for a third of the company instead. [4] He became a partner with Simon & Schuster and remained an executive after it was sold to Field Enterprises , Inc. in 1944.
Simon & Schuster LLC (/ ˈ ʃ uː s t ər /, SHOO-stər) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. [5]
Many replicas have been made of the Resolute desk. The first was commissioned in 1978 for a permanent display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and since then five other presidential libraries and many museums, libraries, tourist attractions, and private homes and offices have acquired copies of the desk.
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In 1938, Western and Simon & Schuster released their first joint creation, A Children’s History. [ 3 ] Duplaix had the idea to produce a colorful children's book that was more durable and affordable than those being published at that time, which often sold for US$2 to $3 (approximately $40 to $70 now).
[7] [11] The New York Times Book Review praised the prose as "admirably translated" that made the book "literature of a high order." [12] [9] The translation immediately became "a Book-of-the-Month Club hit." [13] Simon & Schuster printed a first-run of 75,000 copies [14] and sold more than 650,000 copies between 1928 and 1942. [9]
In any case, Simon & Schuster was unlikely to make back Clinton's advance or to sell all the copies it had shipped. [42] Politico termed the book's sales "a solid figure in a depleted publishing industry but far from the juggernaut her backers hoped for." [43] The book continued to accumulate sales into the year following its publication.