Publishers

Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same.

"A lot of what has happened this year - if it were a novel, I would say that it had a little too much plot," said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.  Read more

Following the announcement that Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann won the bidding war for Simon & Schuster with a $2.2 billion offer, members of the book business and related organizations have begun to weigh in.  Read more

Penguin Random House purchasing Simon & Schuster is not the gravest danger to the publishing business. The deal is transpiring in a larger context-and that context is Amazon.

If you want to publish a nonfiction book that lands you a literary agent or a contract from a sizable publisher (with a decent advance in the four or five figures), then market conditions-and your position in that market-will affect your ability to secure a deal.  Read more

Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has confirmed that it is interested in acquiring Simon & Schuster once ViacomCBS begins to again actively shop the country's third largest trade publishing house after the pandemic fades Shortly after Viacom and CBS merged, the newly-formed company placed S&S on the sales block.