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Simon & Schuster, Inc., is a publishing house founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster, notable for its publication of crossword puzzle books. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... The media of New York City is internationally influential, with some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Richard L. Simon (1899 - July 29, 1960) was an American businessman, the co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster. ... The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. ...

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Origins

Crossword puzzles first appeared in the New York World in 1913. By 1924, they had been a weekly feature for many years. According to Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's. Simon's aunt, a crossword devotee, asked him whether there was a book of these puzzles that she could give to a friend. Simon discovered that none had been published, and, with Schuster, launched a company to exploit the opportunity. Frederick Lewis Allen (July 5, 1890 - February 13, 1954) was an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century whose specialty was writing about what was at the time recent and popular history. ...


Their first book was marketed cleverly. To attract attention, it came with a pencil attached to it. Their advertising campaign implied that it was about to become a new fad:

1921—Coué
1922—Mah Jong
1923—Bananas
1924—THE CROSSWORD-PUZZLE BOOK

The ad proved prophetic, and crossword puzzles were indeed the craze of 1924. Émile Coué (born in Troyes, France, 26 February 1857 of old noble Breton stock; died 2 July 1926 in Nancy, France) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy, healing, and self-improvement, based on autosuggestion or self-hypnosis. ... This article discusses the four-player game of Chinese origin. ... Banana can be The Banana fruit The town Banana, Queensland The town Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo The Rev. ...


Simon & Schuster soon became a publisher of books of all kinds, and currently publishes over two thousand titles annually under 35 different imprints.


In 1939, with Robert Fair de Graff, Simon & Schuster founded Pocket Books, America's first paperback publisher. Pocket Books is the name of a subdivision of Simon & Schuster publishers. ...


In 1942, Simon and Schuster, or "Essandess" as it is called in the initial announcement, launched the Little Golden Books series in cooperation with the Artists and Writers Guild. Simon & Schuster's partner in the venture was the Western Printing and Lithographing Company which handled the actual printing. Western Printing bought out Simon and Schuster's interest in 1958. Little Red Hen cover Little Golden Books is a very popular series of childrens books begun in 1942. ...


Some of its near-legendary editors have been Robert Gottlieb and Michael Korda. Robert Gottlieb served as editor of The New Yorker from 1987 until 1992. ... Michael Korda (b. ...


Simon & Schuster continues to be the preeminent U. S. publisher of crossword puzzle books.


Currently

Simon & Schuster is currently a division of the media giant CBS Corporation (formerly Viacom). CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is an American media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. ... Viacom began life as CBS Films, the television syndication division of CBS. In 1971, the division was renamed VIACOM (Video & Audio Communications), and in 1973 it was spun off, amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies (the rules were later repealed). ...


Imprints

  • Simon & Schuster (the main imprint)

and

  • Atria Books
  • Free Press
  • Howard Books
  • Kaplan
  • Pocket Books
  • Scribner
  • Simon Spotlight Entertainment
  • Strebor
  • The Touchstone and Fireside Group


for young adults and children Pocket Books is the name of a subdivision of Simon & Schuster publishers. ...

  • Aladdin Paperbacks
  • Atheneum Books
  • Libros Para Niños
  • Little Simon®
  • Little Simon Inspirations
  • Margaret K. McElderry Books
  • Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • Simon Pulse
  • Simon Spotlight®
  • Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Trivia

Simon & Schuster headquarters on Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York City
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Simon & Schuster headquarters on Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York City
  • The familiar Simon & Schuster logotype is based on Millet's seminal painting The Sower.
  • From around 1991, until November 2003, Simon and Schuster also had a division, named Simon and Schuster Interactive, devoted to games for computers and video game consoles such as Xbox, GameCube, and Playstation. They published such games as Outlaw Golf, Real War, Real War: Rogue States, and the Deer Avenger series, Soldiers of Anarchy and Eve Online
  • In 2001, Simon and Schuster published Now, Discover Your Strengths the first book to print a unique password on each jacket that enables the reader to go online and test him or herself in the concepts from the book. This book was a phenomenal best seller, spawning a trend that Simon and Schuster has continued with best selling titles like The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book.

Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Image File history File links S&SCurrentlogo. ... This article or section should include material from logo design, discuss it at Talk:Logo design A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... The Sower. ... Á ... A 2002 game released by Simon & Schusters. ... EVE Online is a persistent world multiplayer online game set in space. ...

See Related

  • "Announcing Little Golden Books." Publishers' Weekly. September 19, 1942. Pages 991-994.
  • "Simon & Schuster Inc." International Directory of Company Histories. 4:671-672.
  • "Simon & Schuster Inc." International Directory of Company Histories. 19:403-405.

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