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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 ...
A spokesman for Simon & Schuster said that between 50,000 and 75,000 copies were sold on the first day. [18] On the following day, the publisher ordered a second printing of 500,000 copies, the largest single print order in its history which surpassed the previous record of 400,000 copies for The Way Things Ought to Be by Limbaugh.
In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of New York World crossword puzzles, which were popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity. [9]
Atria Publishing Group is a general interest publisher and a division of Simon & Schuster.The publishing group launched as Atria Books in 2002. The Atria Publishing Group was later created internally at Simon & Schuster to house a number of imprints including Atria Books, Atria Trade Paperbacks, Atria Books Espanol, Atria Unbound, Washington Square Press, Emily Bestler Books, Atria/Beyond ...
The author credited for one of the Buffy products is Gertrude Pocket, a reference to the company's kangaroo logo. (The Buffy novels are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, another division of Simon & Schuster.) Pocket Books is also the division that currently owns publication rights to the well-known work of James O'Barr, The Crow.
[4] At its height, the book sold a million copies a year. [4] 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.
The private equity giant will buy Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion in cash, said Paramount Global, the parent company of the storied publishing house. Simon & Schuster purchased by private ...
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