Simon & Schuster and Urano World Publishing Group Form Joint Publishing Arrangement

Leading global publisher Simon & Schuster and Urano World Publishing Group, one of the biggest independent publishers in Spain and Latin America, announced today the establishment of a joint publishing arrangement between Primero Sueño Press, an imprint of Atria Books, and Urano Publishing. Now, for the first time in its history, Simon & Schuster will have the opportunity to distribute directly into the Spanish Speaking marketplace.

This partnership is representative of Simon & Schuster’s ambition to expand the scope of its international publishing efforts, in English, translated work, and foreign languages.
 
As part of the agreement, a select number of Spanish language titles will be published in Spain and Latin America by Urano World and its imprints, as well as distributing titles directly to most Spanish speaking territories throughout the world. In the United States, co-published titles will be published under the Primero Sueño Press imprint.
 
“Since we announced Primero Sueño Press in February 2024, the reader response to the imprint’s mission to serve Spanish and English speakers has been remarkable,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp. “This partnership with Urano World Publishing Group, one of the best known and most respected publishers of Spanish-language books around the world, is an exciting next step in making these books available to readers worldwide and expanding their reach. We are thrilled to offer our authors the opportunity to extend their reach into Spanish language markets.”
 
“We’re eager to introduce Simon & Schuster’s most impactful titles to our community, both original and in translation, to new markets around the world with such a dynamic strategic partner,” says Michelle Herrera Mulligan, VP and Associate Publisher at Primero Sueño Press. “The Urano World Publishing Group is known for starting conversations that cross borders and genres. Our authors couldn’t be in better hands"

“We are particularly pleased to announce this partnership with one of the world’s leading publishing groups. The depth and diversity of their editorial catalog will enable us to move forward together, fostering a new and enhanced level of engagement with Spanish-speaking readers around the globe,” says Joaquín Sabaté, CEO of Urano World. “We are delighted to embark on this journey together and confident that the market will welcome it with great enthusiasm"

Primero Sueño Press has an exciting inaugural list under this joint venture of over twenty translated titles publishing both in the United States and in partnership with Urano Publishing. The first co-published title will be the Spanish edition of For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn, which will release on October 21, 2025, in conjunction with publication of the book’s Special Edition in the United States. Future publications include the Spanish editions of The Book of Shadow Work; Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System; and the high-profile horror anthology The Ghosts of Where We Are From.  

About Simon & Schuster: Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, is dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and VBK in the Netherlands and Belgium. It proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.

About Atria Books: Atria Books (AY · tree · uh) is an imprint of Simon and Schuster. Atria fosters an open environment where ideas flourish, bestselling authors soar to new heights, and tomorrow’s finest voices are discovered and nurtured. Since its launch in 2002, Atria has published hundreds of bestsellers including commercial and literary fiction, mysteries and thrillers, narrative nonfiction, politics and popular culture, science, personal development, and spirituality. Atria is a place where great books come to light. For more information, visit our website at https://www.simonandschusterpublishing.com/atria

About Primero Sueño Press: Primero Sueño Press is Atria Books’ bilingual imprint, which focuses on publishing Latine and Hispanic authors in English and Spanish, along with translations of Simon and Schuster’s most impactful titles for our audiences.  Primero Sueño Press aims to celebrate and amplify voices that both serve and reflect our community. Named after iconic Mexican feminist nun and writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s landmark poem that celebrates the soul’s search for absolute knowledge, Primero Sueño Press hopes to showcase the talents of our community by bringing them to new audiences and introducing readers to our rich, diverse culture. The imprint publishes fiction and nonfiction titles ranging from magic realism and horror to self-help, spirituality, and leadership in business.  We feature a growing roster of talented authors including Maria Hinojosa, John Leguizamo, Reyna Grande, Keila Shaheen, Marie Arana, Caro de Robertis, Daniel Habif, Luis Jaramillo, Veronica Chapa, and more! 

About Urano World: Urano World is the parent company that houses different divisions, each of them having a certain link to the publishing world. We have an extensive network of offices in eight countries from Latin America, North America and Europe. This allows us to work with a global and transversal approach, and with a strong strategy in each of the sectors in which we are involved. We approach the realities of each market and seek creative and effective solutions to establish ourselves as a benchmark company. Our divisions are Digital Booster, Amabook, Amaworld, Urano Learning, and Urano Audio.

Under the name Ediciones Urano, and with 40 years of history, it is the division dedicated to publishing books in Spanish for readers of all ages and in different formats -paper, e-book, audio or video- in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and the USA, in our imprints, which cover all the different fields of the fiction and nonfiction space. We have some of the biggest names of the nonfiction and fiction space, such as Rhonda Byrne, Don Miguel Ruiz, Spencer Johnson, Simon Sinek, Susan Cain, Taylor Jenkins Reid, V.E. Schwab, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Garber, Rebecca Ross, Emily Henry, Amir Levine, among many others.