Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC
Company typeSubsidiary
FoundedJanuary 2, 1924 (1924-01-02)
Founders
HeadquartersSimon & Schuster Building, ,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsBooks
ServicesSee § Imprints
Revenue US$1.1 billion (2022)
Owner
Number of employees
c.1,600 (2023)
Websitesimonandschuster.com
Footnotes / references

Simon & Schuster LLC (/ˈʃstər/, SHOO-stər) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster is considered one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. As of 2017, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.