Simon and Schuster Inc.

While active with other forms of social media, I never really "got" FourSquare. When a friend told me about how businesses are involved, I became more intrigued.

The end of a calendar year is always an interesting time for the publishing industry and perhaps never more so than the close of 2010.

Bob Dylan has signed a six-book deal with Simon & Schuster, according to Crain's New York Business, encompassing two sequels to his acclaimed 2004 book Chronicles: Volume One as well as another book based on dialogue from his Sirius/XM radio show Theme Time Radio Hour.

Managing inventory is as much an art as a science, and like any art, a number of tried-and-true techniques exist that publishers may want to consider.

With the expansion of the smartphone market, mobile seems poised to fulfill its promise as the next great frontier in publishing.

Year-to-date sales of U.S. trade e-books sold through wholesale channels show an increase of more than 204 percent over sales through June 2009.

Simon & Schuster Digital and Scribner have partnered with CBS News to publish Simon & Schuster's first enhaced e-book, "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. The e-book includes 27 historic video segments along with the original book text—ranging from the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon televised debates to Nixon's re-election speech in the midst of Watergate. It retails for $15.99 in the Apple iBookstore and on the Amazon Kindle app for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

(Press Release) NEW YORK, July 7—Every day more and more consumers are using mobile devices to access the web, and Simon & Schuster Digital is pleased to now be able to connect those on-the-go consumers to a mobile-optimized version of the company’s acclaimed website, simonandschuster.com. The new site, www.simonandschuster.mobi, will appear whenever a user attempts to access simonandschuster.com from a mobile device, and features many of the key elements from that site, including:

Short-run digital printing is unquestionably a technology whose time has arrived. Its quality and capabilities are improving steadily, and inline/near-line binding solutions promise to make an already capable technology even more so. Many digital printers' equipment and skills have improved to where we have moved away from the Henry Ford Model A approach to substrates ("any paper you want as long as it is (50) uncoated offset") to manufacturing of case-bound, four-color textbooks printed on (60) gloss coated stock.

Simon & Schuster Digital announced this week two initiatives as part of its ongoing efforts to offer readers new ways to find and sample its book content.