About Media Masters  
   

Media Masters is, arguably, the most recognised Singapore publishing imprint on the international scene. This is no mean feat for a small independent company that was founded by a former war correspondent to kickstart new careers for a couple of his displaced and “unemployable” friends. More than 30 years on, when asked what made the enterprise flourish, the erstwhile journalist only says: Hard work and more hard work.

  
   
There have been rewards.  
   
How many Singapore-produced publications have sold more than a million copies? How many Singapore-published works can you read in Vietnamese, complex and simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Polish and Arabic? Or, for that matter, in German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, Korean and Thai? . . . Or, to make a sometimes touchy distinction ¬– in British and American English!  
   
 
     
  Media Masters’ Being Happy! by Andrew Matthews, the first title in our “Books To Lift Your Life” series, has, to date, sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. More than 30 foreign publishing houses have come up with their own national language editions of our book. Its companion title, Making Friends, also by Andrew Matthews, was produced two years after BH’s initial publication. It has also been widely translated and has, so far, sold more than a million copies.  
     
   
     
 

Over more than three decades, Media Masters has been unwavering in its commitment to subjects of substance, books to lift your life, titles that delve deep into festering sores, topics that get at truths and shatter self-serving myths.

Media Masters has also, for more than 30 years, been unremitting in its belief in good quality production

  
     
 

Do publishers have a motto?

 
     
  To succeed, they must have one. At Media Masters, we believe publishing is best spurred by the right doses of knowledge, discipline and passion.