Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 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.
An audiobook is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements.
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan in New York City. It is headquartered in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under six imprints.
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006. Its headquarters are located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hachette is considered one of the "big five" publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. In one year, HBG publishes approximately 1400+ adult books, 300 books for young readers, and 450 audiobook titles. In 2017, the company had 167 books on the New York Times bestseller list, 34 of which reached No. 1.
Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young Readers, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press.
Scott Brick is an American actor, writer and award-winning narrator of over 800 audiobooks, including popular titles such as Washington: A Life, Moneyball, and Cloud Atlas. He has narrated works for a number of high-profile authors, including Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler and John Grisham.
The Ukrainian News Agency is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, as well as a popular photo reporting service. Since February 2008 the company is part of the Inter Media Group Ltd., formerly U.A. Inter Media Group, which itself is a subsidiary of the Russian-based company GDF Media Ltd. Inter Media Group Limited also owns 61% of the Ukrainian TV channel Inter.
Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using print on demand technology. It may also apply to albums, pamphlets, brochures, games, video content, artwork, and zines. Web fiction is also a major medium for self-publishing.
Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name Kobo is an anagram of book.
Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 and Random House was founded in 1927. It has more than 300 publishing imprints. Along with Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House is considered one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers.
Stanislav Tsalyk is a Ukrainian writer, an essayist, a local history expert, and a BBC history writer.
The Challenger Sale is the first non-fiction book by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at CEB Inc. The book was published on November 10, 2011 by Portfolio/Penguin. In the text, the book argues that relationship-building is no longer the best sales method. To sell complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions, customers are changing how they buy so sales people must change how they sell. The authors’ study found that sales reps fall into one of five profiles, and the challenger seller is the highest performer.
LuckyBooks is a charity initiative that publishes and freely distributes popular science books for teens in the Ukrainian language in libraries all over Ukraine. Over the years of its existence, more than 5,000 project's books were transported into 144 libraries in Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Odesa oblasts.
The Ukrainian Book Institute is a state institution under the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. It is designed to shape state policy in the book industry, promote book reading in Ukraine, support book publishing, encourage translation activities, and popularize Ukrainian literature abroad.
Daria Oleksandrivna Zarivna is a social activist, and entrepreneur. She was involved in media business, creative industry and charity before joining state service. Zarivna became an advisor of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in June 2019, and an advisor of the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak in February 2020.
Allo is a Ukrainian group of companies operating as a marketplace in online and classic retail and electronics distribution. It is headquartered in Dnipro, Ukraine. The group also operates its own postal service Allo Express.
The Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia is a Ukrainian encyclopedia published since 2013 by the State Research Institution "Encyclopedia Press" according to two decrees of the President of Ukraine under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. As of 2022, the vol. 1 was published (2016), the vols. 2 and 3 are ready for publication as well as a separate volume “Ukraine: 30 years of Independence. A Short Reference Guide”. The head of the project is the director of “Encyclopedia Press” Alla Kyrydon. The head of the editorial board is the full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Vadym Loktiev.
Laboratory, is a Ukrainian publishing house founded in the year 2020 by Anton Martynov. It publishes fiction and nonfiction books.
Vladyslav Savchenko is a Ukrainian volunteer, producer, activist, and entrepreneur president of the European Association of Software Engineering (EASE). He is also a television expert in IT matters and crisis management.
Oleksandr Dermanskyi, known as Sashko Dermanskyi, is a Ukrainian writer who wrote many novels and books of poetry for children. Many of his books have received critical acclaim and are well known in Ukraine. His works are recommended by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and are included into the reading school curricula for elementary and middle schools.
