Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster and is a part of CBS Corporation.

Simon & Schuster is a major force in today’s consumer publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive cross section of first class information and entertainment, in all printed, digital, and audio formats, to a worldwide audience of readers.

Simon & Schuster consists of numerous prestigious and well known imprints, including Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner, Free Press, Atria, Fireside, Touchstone, Gallery Books, Howard Books, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Little Simon, and Simon Spotlight. Simon & Schuster publishes approximately 2000 titles annually.

In 2009, Simon & Schuster placed 164 titles on the New York Times bestseller list, including twenty five #1 bestsellers. These high profile titles included Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck, Under the Dome by Stephen King, Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin, It’s Your Time by Joel Osteen, Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn, Just Take my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark, Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult, Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Wiener, Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown, and The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze. 

Bestsellers from Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing Division in 2009 included The Mortal Instruments trilogy by Cassandra Clare, Night World by L.J. Smith, The Secret to Teen Power by Paul Harrington, Cat by Matthew Van Fleet, The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, and Barack Obama Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes. In 2009, twelve Simon & Schuster titles were named New York Times "Notable Books of the Year", and three books, Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls, A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert in fiction, and Raymond Carver: A Life by Carole Sklenica were selected for the "10 Best Books of 2009 list."

In 2009 Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won the Grammy Award for “Best Spoken Word Album. Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking and Jimmy Carter’s We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land are finalists for the 2010 Grammy.

On April 27, 2008, Simon & Schuster set a company single-week record with 31 simultaneous New York Times bestsellers.

In all, Simon & Schuster titles have received 54 Pulitzer Prizes, 15 National Book Awards, 14 Caldecott and 19 Newbery Medals. In 2007, Simon & Schuster partnered with TurnHere to launch the bookvideos.tv internet channel, becoming the first publisher to systematically employ internet videos as a means of marketing our books and authors.

Simon & Schuster took an environmentally-minded step forward in 2007 kicking off a green publishing initiative that includes an industry-leading paper policy designed to promote the use of recycled fiber and paper sourced from FSC certified forests.