Founded in 1939 with the goal of creating a wider audience for books, Pocket Books continues to be an industry pioneer with imprints including Pocket Books Hardcovers, Threshold Editions, Downtown Press, MTV Books, G-Unit, and Star Trek. Believing that Americans were ready for a more convenient and inexpensive way to read, he took his dream of creating a wider audience for books to Richard L. Toda
y, Pocket Books continues to be an industry pioneer with an innovative and expansive publishing program that includes Pocket Books Hardcovers, Threshold Editions, Downtown Press, MTV Books, G-Unit, and Star Trek. In 2005, Pocket Books introduced the Premium Edition paperbacks, a line of high quality, oversized mass market books featuring bestselling authors and designed to bridge the gap between the traditional mass market and trade paperback formats. Most recently in 2012, Simon & Schuster re-launched Pocket Star as a digital first eBook imprint. For more visit www.PocketStarEbooks.com.
