Billionaire media sage John Malone, who has built and presided over a number of influential companies in telecom, cable, ...

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 ...

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

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

The mogul, whose moniker “Cable Cowboy” nods to his roots running Tele-Communications Inc., has signed a deal with Simon & ...

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

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has secured a new deal with award-winning author Jenny Valentine, for a new series of middle grade diaries, as well as a young adult novel. Managing director ...

Described as a “Fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop,” the novel follows Harriet Tubman as she ...

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.

Bill Belichick announced the forthcoming publication of his new book The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football, out ...

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