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• DOJ calls Apple “ringmaster” in pretrial filings

  Two weeks before United States of America vs. Apple Inc., the infamous e-book price-fixing case originally brought against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, goes to trial, the… Read more »

• Jaron Lanier offers to save the book business, but even his own publisher doesn’t listen

  Jaron Lanier has been called an “internet pioneer,” a “digital visionary,” and a “technology humanist.” He shaped the internet as it was being formed, later criticizing Web 2.0 for making… Read more »

• Simon & Schuster announce new ebook lending program for libraries

  Simon and Schuster, launched long ago in 1924 on the back of the very first, and bestselling, crossword puzzle book, is the newest in a line of publishers who’ve recently… Read more »

• Remembering Nina Bourne, book advertising and publishing legend

  Nina Bourne worked in book publishing for  seventy years. After graduating from Barnard, she started her career in 1939 and learned her celebrated copywriting skills from beloved and legendary Simon… Read more »

• B&N and S&S still locked in “despicable” dispute over new terms

  It has been almost two months since a special January 30th Publishers Weekly alert went out to subscribers announcing “Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble in Dispute Over Terms.” While some… Read more »

• Why isn’t B&N taking books from Simon & Schuster?

  On January 30th, subscribers to Publishers Weekly’s email newsletter received a special “News Alert” … Read more »

• Bookish finally launches after a year-and-a-half of fits and starts

  But what does it do?… Read more »

• Simon & Schuster’s wildly important goal

  Ask any Simon & Schuster employee about their “WIG,” and a look of recognition mixed with a Nietzschean grin into the abyss* will flicker across his or her face. In… Read more »

• News Corp. in talks to acquire Simon & Schuster?

  Or simply an attempt to shift focus from the UK media imbroglio … Read more »

• After 65 years, Free Press to be absorbed into Simon & Schuster flagship

  As Free Press marks its 65th year, its varied and complicated history has taken a dramatic turn.  Yesterday, employees learned that the imprint and its backlist would be merged into… Read more »