It wasn’t that long ago I provided an update on the Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster situation, but now there’s been a new development. The Would-Be Merger To recap, Penguin Random House, owned by Bertelsmann, agreed to pay ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) $2.175 billion for book publisher Simon & Schuster in November 2020. […]
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