Lee & Low Books Incorporated

Simon & Schuster, founded in 1924, serves the consumer publishing industry. The company offers information and entertainment in printed, digital and audio formats to readers. It publishes more than 2,000 titles annually. The company serves clients in Canada, Australia and the United States. Simon & Schuster manages an adult publishing group. The company provides products under the Pocket Books, Scribner, Free Press, Atria and Touchstone brands. Its Fireside group offers books on subjects, such as self-help, parenting, psychology, health and medicine. The company serves retailers and wholesalers. In addition, it provides planning calendars, catalogs, sell sheets, media kits and teaching guides. Simon & Schuster is a part of CBS Corporation.

Hachette Book Group is one of leading trade publishers in the United States. It is owned and operated by Hachette Livre, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagard re, one of the leading companies in the areas of communications and media that include books, press, audiovisual, and distribution and retailing of cultural products. Hachette Book Group publishes more than 450 adult and over 150 adolescent and children s books, as well as over 60 audio book titles. It offers books of various categories, such as nonfiction, mystery, drama, romance, health and self-help, science fiction, and fantasy. The company operates several publishing divisions, including Windblown Media, FaithWords, Center Street, Yen Press, Little Brown and Company, Brown Books for Young Readers, Grand central Publishing and Hachette Audio. Hachette Book Group distributes publishing lines for Chronicle Books, Microsoft Learning, Arcade, Time, Home Entertainment, Phaidon Press, Filipacchi Publishing, Weinstein Books and Gildan Media.