With Penguin Random House Out of the Picture, What Happens to Simon & Schuster Now?

Simon & Schuster has plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. New books from Bob Dylan and Mike Pence have been lighting up the best-seller lists, as has Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, now enjoying its 14th week in the upper echelons of The New York Times’ top nonfiction releases. That’s to say nothing of Colleen Hoover, the TikTok-propelled book-sales behemoth who has helped make S&S, as one veteran publishing source put it, “by far the most profitable company in the industry.” Hoover’s new novel, It Starts With Us, dropped on October 18, immediately becoming, in the words… Read Full Article