Concept
Simon & Schuster
Overview
Simon & Schuster LLC ( SHOO-stər) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster is considered one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers. As of 2017, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.
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It acts as agent for some of the leading British publishers, including the houses of Murray, Heinemann, Black, Chapman and Hall, and Mowbray; and for the large publishing business of Messrs. Angus and Robertson of Sydney. [Illustration: MARKHAM’S BUILDINGS, CAPE TOWN in which the South African Branch is situated] § 4.
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Close in meaning to Simon & Schuster; the term itself is not named.
This [copy], lacking a title-page, was formerly part of a volume of laws and other folio tracts printed by Bradford between 1694 and 1710, which was bought at a sale at Bangs's, in New-York, about ten years ago, by the late Dr. George H. Moore, for $26. In 1890 Dr. Moore sold the volume as he bought it for $1750 to the writer, who, having supplied the title-page in facsimile, sold so much of "the Laws of 1694 as…
Roger J. Trienens, Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States
Close in meaning to Simon & Schuster; the term itself is not named.
A still more useful establishment than any of the rest, was that of a printing-press, for Russian and Latin types; the implements of which were all brought from Holland. They began by printing translations in the Russian language of several books of morality and polite literature. Ferguson founded schools for geometry, astronomy, and navigation.
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Philosophers who discussed Simon & Schuster
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- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Baron d'Holbach
- Peter Marshall (travel writer)
- René Descartes
- Ray Bradbury
- Will Durant
- Julius Evola
- Voltaire
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- John Hospers
- Confucius
- George Gurdjieff
- Scott J. Shapiro
- Ian Caldwell
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Part of Communism.