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Simon Schuster

Hey Publishers, Screwing Your Best Customers Is A Mistake

Matt Stewart | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Nook, E-Reader, Publishing, Kindle, Books, Book Publishing, Hatchette, Harpercollins, Apple Tablet, Business Model, Amazon, S&s, Amazon.com, Apple, Simon & Schuster, Customers, Pricing, Sony, Books News
Matt Stewart

By denying the value of e-books, S&S, Hatchette and HarperCollins will make it harder for their power-readers to buy from them, to champion their books, to spread literary joy quickly and easily.

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Postcards From the Fun-Employed, Part Deux

Paula Froelich | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Page Six, Marriage, The Met, Simon & Schuster, Children, Atria, Writing, Africa, Novels, Novelists, George Clooney, Paula Froelich, Books News
Paula Froelich

I started writing a novel called "Female Kryptonite." It was about Jim - a never married, successful (in business and with the ladies), 40-something who starts to realize he's lonely.

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All Hail, or Hurl -- The Hybrid Book is Here!

Tom Alderman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Video, Kindle, Hybrid Books, Ipod, Vook, Level 26, Csi, Audiobooks, Ereaders, Simon & Schuster, Writing, Iphone, Vooks, Books, Ebooks, Anthony Zuiker, Nook, Digi-Novel, Ereader, Bestsellers, Books News
Tom Alderman

"Level 26: Dark Origins" is the first of it's kind, but it's just the beginning of a whole new species of hybrid books that may change the publishing landscape.

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Brave New Chapter: The Simon & Schuster eBook Announcement

Adam Hanft | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Ellie Hirschhorn, Barnes & Noble, Simon & Schuster, Itunes, Ebooks, Books News
Adam Hanft

In the same way that iTunes liberated songs from the album format, books will no longer be solely linear.

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CDs and Ardi and Vooks, Oh My!

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology

Read More: Vooks, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Ardi, Simon & Schuster, Science, Evolution, Fundamentalists, Gourmet Magazine, George Albert, Cds, Gourmet Magazine Closes, Eight-Tracks, DigiScent iSmell, Technology, Cashbox, Technology News
Michael Sigman

It can be exhilarating to contemplate the digital and evolutionary future. But I don't know if I could bear a world of "vookcases," "vook reports," and God forbid, a New York Review of Vooks.

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Video: Book Publishers, Authors Launching iPhone Apps

Daisy Whitney | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: New Media Minute, Simon & Schuster, Daisy Whitney, Bob Gilbreath, Vook, Iphone Books, iPhone Apps, Nick Cave, Books News
Daisy Whitney

The book industry is feverishly trying to reinvent itself with new digital versions of books, and now a handful of authors are turning to the iPhone for help.

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The End Of Simon & Schuster's Teen Imprint

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Books, Simon, Book Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Financial Crisis @Y:Business, Simon Spotlight, Books News

When Simon Spotlight Entertainment launched in the fall of 2004, it was hailed as an innovative attempt to target readers in their teens and early 20s...

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Glenn Beck Signs $3M Book Deal

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Glenn Beck Simon & Schuster, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Book Deal, An Inconvenient Book, Simon & Schuster, Glenn Beck Book, Huffpost Books, Books, Media News

The Media Mob has learned that conservative radio and television host Glenn Beck has just finished signing a huge new two-book deal with Simon & Schus...

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