Threshold Editions

Threshold Editions is a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, owned by CBS Corporation. Since March 2005, Mary Matalin, a political strategist for the Republican Party, has been chief editor.

In August 2008, it published Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation, it was #4 in sales in nonfiction during the first week of its release [cite web | url = http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hSrO3AKCadFLC_0EYvoVO7c3JAlgD92DJPRO0 | title = Publishers Weekly Best-Sellers | work = Associated Press | publisher = Google News | date = 2008-08-07 | accessdate = 2008-08-15 ] and on August 13, "The New York Times" reported that the book had reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover non-fiction books, due in part to higher bulk sales.cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html|title=Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat ’04 Anti-Kerry Feat |coauthors=Rutenberg, Jim and Bosman, Julie|date=2008-08-12|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-08-16] The book has been criticized as containing factual errors consisting of smears, falsehoods, and innuendo.cite web | url = http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/15/campaign-says-mccain-didnt-hear-question-on-attack-book | title = Campaign says McCain didn't hear question on attack book | | first = Alexander | last = Mooney | coauthors = | date = 2008-08-15 | work = CNN | accessdate = 2008-08-15 ] cite web | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-rutten16-2008aug16,0,5171785.column | title = The extreme-right way to make a buck | | first = Tim | last = Rutten | coauthors = | date = 2008-08-16 | work = The Los Angeles Times | accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] cite web | url = http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/15/a-plague-on-both-their-houses.aspx | title = Overdoing the Outrage | | first = Andrew | last = Romano | coauthors = | date = 2008-08-15 | work = Newsweek | accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] As a result Timothy Noah, of "Slate" contacted Corsi and Matalin "asking whether they intended to correct "any" errors in "The Obama Nation" [emphasis in original] ," Corsi did not answer and Matalin replied saying she was is not the person to ask.cite news | title = Mary Matalin, Publisher | work = Slate | first = Timothy | last = Noah | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2197432/ | date = 2008-08-13 | acceessdate = 2008-08-15 ] Noah criticized the publisher "standards," saying Matalin does care about accuracy, but "All Threshold's chief gets paid to do is say, 'Yup, that'll sell' or 'No, that won't sell.' Sweet!"

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* [http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=516708 Threshold Editions]