What the ruling against the PRH-S&S merger means for the publishing business

Judge Florence Y. Pan ruled today that the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House could not go forward. The ruling was explicitly to protect the “competition” for the “anticipated top-selling books”. In other words, the big books by big authors for which only the Big Five can compete regularly (with occasional bids […]

The post What the ruling against the PRH-S&S merger means for the publishing business appeared first on The Idea Logical Company.