November 2020. Suffice to say, a lot was happening then. But one of the many headlines from that time period was that Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the US, wanted to buy rival Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global). Likely due to the change of leadership, the US government sued […]
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