Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

Simon Shuster is a senior correspondent at TIME. He covers international affairs, with a focus on Russia and Ukraine. For his first book, The Showman, he reported inside the Ukrainian President ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary ... one that takes time away from the actual writing and editing of books. But until last week, the quid pro quo cycle felt ...

“We are going to have to sell a lot of books to pay for this party,” Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster’s CEO, awkwardly joked in a speech at the showy soiree. One attendee told The ...

That is because Simon & Schuster, an American publisher, has decided to stop doing book blurbs, those saccharine quotes from other authors on the back of books, at its flagship imprint.

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them ...

Simon & Schuster Children’s has acquired the final instalment in Catherine Doyle’s City of Fantome trilogy, in addition to one stand-alone YA romantasy novel.

Simon Shuster is a senior correspondent at TIME. He covers international affairs, with a focus on Russia and Ukraine. For his first book, The Showman, he reported inside the Ukrainian President ...

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