Pocket Star Books
Pocket Star Books was a Simon & Schuster mass market paperback imprint under Pocket Books, known for genre and media tie-in novels, relaunched as an e-book-only line in 2012 and later disbanded.
- Editions tracked
- 34
- First editions
- 28
- Books
- 34
- Years
- 1991 to 2016
Pocket Star Books is a publisher active from 1991. We track 34 editions it published between 1991 and 2016, 28 of them first editions across 34 books. Each book lists its first edition and the points that identify it.
About Pocket Star Books
Pocket Star Books was a mass market imprint of Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books, used for genre fiction and media tie-in novels from at least the early 1990s and relaunched as a digital-only imprint in 2012.
Its parent, Pocket Books, was founded in 1939 by Robert Fair de Graff with Richard L. Simon, M. Lincoln Schuster and Leon Shimkin of Simon & Schuster, and produced the first mass market pocket-sized paperbacks in the United States. Simon & Schuster bought Pocket Books outright in 1966 and ran it as an imprint.
Under the Pocket Star name the company issued mass market genre fiction, and Wikipedia describes the line as Pocket's home for media tie-ins. Its science fiction and horror list included books by Dayton Ward, Greg Cox, David Mack, Christopher L. Bennett, Douglas Clegg and Graham Masterton.
In March 2012 Simon & Schuster soft-launched Pocket Star as an e-book-only imprint, announced that May, mixing mostly new titles with older ones in women's fiction, romance, thrillers, urban fantasy and mystery, with titles able to move into print later. Lauren McKenna was named its editorial director under Pocket publisher Louise Burke. After an October 2012 reorganisation it was one of four imprints in the Gallery Publishing Group, and it has since been disbanded.
We have not yet written the guide to Pocket Star Books's first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Pocket Star Books marked its firsts? Tell us.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Pocket Star Books books does MyVolumes track?
We track 34 editions published by Pocket Star Books, 28 of them first editions, across 34 books.
Where these facts come from
- Pocket Star to Be E-book Only, Publishers Weekly, 2012 (publishersweekly.com)
- Pocket Books, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gallery Publishing Group, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pocket Star Books, Worlds Without End (worldswithoutend.com)
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