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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]
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster 's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman. [1]
Paramount has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion in cash, after more than three years of trying to offload the book publishing powerhouse.
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., is a software and data company which provides data for companies and business individuals. [2][3][4] Their main product is a commercial search-engine, specialized in contact and business information. From the internet and other sources, the company collects contact and other information about individuals, companies ...
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.
Reuters had in February reported that Paramount Global, the owner of Simon & Schuster, was making a fresh attempt to sell the publisher months after the collapse of a planned $2.2 billion sale to ...
Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was one of the best-known publishers specializing in serious nonfiction, including path-breaking sociology books of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. After a period under new ownership in the 1980s of publishing neoconservative books, it was ...
A federal judge on Monday blocked a $2.18 billion planned merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two of the world’s most dominant book publishers, siding with U.S. antitrust ...