Simon & Schuster
American publishing company
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| 2024 | Summit Books imprint is revived by Simon & Schuster. |
| September 2024 | Simon & Schuster Australia announced an agreement to acquire publisher Affirm Press. |
| May 2024 | Simon & Schuster acquired Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK), the largest Dutch book publishing company, marking its first expansion into a non-English market. |
| 2023 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) acquired ownership of Simon & Schuster, marking a significant change in the company's corporate structure. |
| October 30 2023 | The sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR was completed. |
| August 7 2023 | Paramount Global announced the sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR for $1.62 billion. |
| November 21 2022 | Bertelsmann canceled its appeal to the court ruling blocking the Simon & Schuster sale. |
| October 31 2022 | US federal judge Florence Y. Pan blocked the sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House. |
| February 15 2022 | ViacomCBS was renamed to Paramount Global. |
| 2021 | MTV Books pop culture imprint was relaunched |
| November 2 2021 | The United States Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block Penguin Random House's proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster. |
| November 25 2020 | ViacomCBS announced the sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for $2.175 billion. |
| September 2020 | Bertelsmann announced its interest in acquiring Simon & Schuster, with CEO Thomas Rabe expressing desire to continue consolidating the book publishing market. |
| March 2020 | ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish announced the company's intention to sell the Simon & Schuster division, with the sale initially expected to close in 2020 but delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | CBS and Viacom reunited to form ViacomCBS, making Simon & Schuster part of the newly formed media conglomerate. |
| December 2018 | Touchstone and Touchstone Books publishing imprint was closed. |
| 2016 | Simon & Schuster launched SimonSays.com, a portal for online video courses, and Scout Press, a new literary fiction imprint. They also expanded North Star Way as a platform-based program for authors. |
| 2015 | Simon & Schuster created North Star Way, a new publishing unit and imprint for non-fiction titles, offering expanded services for authors including online courses, seminars, workshops, and multimedia platforms. |
| February 2015 | Marvel Comics attempted to register the name Northstar, but the application was denied due to Simon & Schuster's prior trademark application for North Star Way. |
| October 21 2014 | Simon & Schuster signed a multi-year partnership deal with Amazon.com concerning e-book pricing and launched Simon451, a new science fiction imprint inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. |
| 2013 | Simon & Schuster began publishing books directly in Canada. |
| December 2013 | A federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, with Simon & Schuster and other publishers paying into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books. |
| November 14 2013 | Simon & Schuster signed a co-publishing agreement with former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to launch Jeter Publishing. |
| 2012 | Simon & Schuster reorganized all of their imprints into four main groups: Atria Publishing Group, Scribner Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster Publishing Group, and Gallery Publishing Group. They also launched Archway Publishing, a self-publishing arm of the company. |
| April 11 2012 | The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Apple Inc.) against Simon & Schuster and four other major publishers for allegedly conspiring to fix e-book prices and weaken Amazon.com's market position. |
| 2011 | Simon & Schuster signed co-publishing deals, including a deal with Glenn Beck for his Mercury Ink imprint and a publishing venture with Cash Money Records called Cash Money Content. |
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