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Pocket Books

American publisher founded by Robert de Graff and others as mass market paperback pioneer
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Pocket Books

Summary

Pocket Books is a publishing house[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pocket Books is in the country of United States[3].
  • Pocket Books's instance of is recorded as publishing house[4].
  • Pocket Books's instance of is recorded as imprint[5].
  • Pocket Books's founder is recorded as Richard L. Simon[6].
  • Pocket Books's founder is recorded as M. Lincoln Schuster[7].
  • Pocket Books's founder is recorded as Leon Shimkin[8].
  • Pocket Books's owned by is recorded as Simon & Schuster[9].
  • Pocket Books's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[10].
  • Pocket Books's ISNI is recorded as 0000000094823075[11].
  • Pocket Books's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 4468166237103096380008[12].
  • Pocket Books's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 139670818[13].
  • Pocket Books's GND ID is recorded as 1036712621[14].
  • Pocket Books's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n88606464[15].
  • Pocket Books's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA16055908[16].
  • Pocket Books's country of origin is recorded as United States[17].
  • +1939-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pocket Books[18].
  • Pocket Books's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03tg_6[19].
  • Pocket Books's official website is recorded as http://www.pocketbooks.com[20].
  • Pocket Books's NUKAT ID is recorded as n2013004798[21].
  • Pocket Books's ISFDB publisher ID is recorded as 22[22].
  • Pocket Books's X is recorded as Pocket_Books[23].
  • Pocket Books's BAnQ authority ID is recorded as 0000130984[24].
  • Pocket Books's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pocket-Books[25].
  • Pocket Books's Fandom article ID is recorded as de.memory-alpha:Pocket_Books[26].
  • Pocket Books's Fandom article ID is recorded as memory-alpha:Pocket_Books[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Richard L. Simon[6], M. Lincoln Schuster[7], and Leon Shimkin[8]. +1939-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pocket Books[18].

Operations

Pocket Books's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[10].

Ownership

Pocket Books's owned by is recorded as Simon & Schuster[9].

Why It Matters

Pocket Books ranks in the top 8% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Deception Point New York City publishing house United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Pocket Books. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pocket-books
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pocket-books_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Pocket Books}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pocket-books}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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