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

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

Explosive. Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d ...

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

In a provocative essay, a major publisher announced that its authors will no longer be required to solicit glowing reviews ...

When you pick up a newly published book, you’ll usually see a ringing ... However, the newly appointed publisher of Simon & Schuster’s US imprint, Sean Manning, is rejecting this long-standing ...

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

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

Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing house Simon & Schuster is going to give it a try. Executive editor Sean Manning has laid out plans for the publisher to stop ...

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.