Carolyn Reidy at Simon & Schuster shares the first of the traditional year-end letters to employees, celebrating the company’s resolve in performing well during a difficult year, even as “we have every reason to expect that this coming year will bring its own set of difficulties for us to face.” On the positive side, “our future is limited only by the resolve we bring to the task, the imagination we apply to the art, and the skill that we bring to the science of publishing.” More practically, she notes “anticipating that the bookselling climate might not recover at any point […]