Simon & Schuster has acquired a novel by former Little, Brown author Kate Furnivall as part of a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Never one to stay at his desk, Simon & Schuster's Ira Silverberg is holding an auction for lunch, a natural for this man-about-publishing. The post Another Publishers Lunch: Chow Down With Ira Silverberg appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Abigail Bergstrom, former senior commissioning editor at Simon & Schuster, has been appointed to the role of publishing manager for talent management company Gleam Futures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and spiritualist Theresa Cheung has found a new publisher in Piatkus, after previously being published by Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new Salaam imprint, focused on Muslim characters and stories, is expected to launch in 2017 with nine books, from picture books for children to Young Adult titles for tweens and teens. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster is set to publish Freedom: My Book of Firsts, a memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in the US aged 11 and held prisoner for 18 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has announced the launch of Salaam Reads, focusing on Muslim characters and stories. The post Simon & Schuster’s Salaam Reads Focuses on Muslim Characters and Stories appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster’s Atheneum imprint buys a picture book by Richard T. Morris, Da Capo nabs a book about the battle of Antietam, Dial signs Jessica Taylor for two YA novels, and more in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
An increase in operating efficiencies, higher backlist sales, and lower returns drove double-digit earnings increases. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bruce Springsteen has penned his autobiography, set for international release through Simon & Schuster this September. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont, Andersen Press and Simon & Schuster each have three books on the longlist for this year’s Branford Boase award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Research by the Bookseller shows that sales for the ‘big five’ UK publishers dropped in 2015Ebook sales for the UK’s five biggest publishers fell in 2015, according to a new report in the Bookseller, collectively declining 2.4%, to 47.9m units. It is the first drop in numbers of books sold in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ingrid Selberg, the former m.d. of Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division, is teaming up with Emma Young to write a middle-grade fiction series about vloggers for Macmillan Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The multi-content subscription service, in beta since 2014, has gone live. It offers tiered access to books, TV/film, music and video games, and has partnerships with such publishers as HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has restructured its marketing and publicity teams, with communications director Hannah Corbett leaving the publisher after 13 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Softening sales for digital books have impacted the bottom lines at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, according to both companies' recent earnings reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Revenue at the Big Five house increased 2% in the third quarter, rising to $203 million. Bestselling adult titles in the quarter included 'The Survivor' by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills, and this year's Pulitzer Prize-winner for fiction, Anthony Doerr's 'All the Light We Cannot See.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Skyhorse Publishing has named Mark Gompertz group editorial director, effective November 9. Gompertz, who was most recently at Hearst Magazines, had a long tenure at Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has bought world rights (excluding Germany) in These Days of Ours, a new novel by Juliet Ashton, and will publish in June 2016. Ashton, who was previously published by Sphere in the UK, is a superstar in Germany, where she has shifted more than 100,000 copies for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
It may not have quite the same resonance as William Goldman’s infamous line about the movie business—“nobody knows anything”—but Carolyn’s Reidy’s comment, made at a recent Book Industry Study Group meeting held in New York, that “the more we know, the more we have to learn” is an excellent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]