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By Jim Milliot | Feb 25, 2021 Simon & Schuster ended what is likely to be its last full year as one of the Big 5 trade publishers by posting a 10.7% increase in revenue over 2019 and a 11% gain in operating income. Revenue hit $901 million last year, while earnings rose to $141 million. S&S’s results were listed as “discontinued operations” by parent company ViacomCBS, as the sale of the company to Penguin Random House undergoes a government review. ViacomCBS only said it expects the deal to be completed sometime this year. Similar to HarperCollins, which earlier this m...

Anthony Doerr fans can appreciate a substantial plot. His most recent novel, 2014's All the Light We Cannot See, explored the destruction and trauma wreaked on Europe by World War II and German occupation through two competing story lines: one about a blind girl forced to flee with her family from Paris to the Brittany coast, the other about an orphaned boy who enters a military academy and becomes a tracker for the Resistance. The effort won him legions of new fans and the Pulitzer Prize, and now the author returns six years later with another Herculean effort. EW is exclusively announcing ...