Bookish Diversions: The Mighty and the Plucky
Major Merger Blocked, Book Sales, Library Data, Gambling, the Little House that Could, More
¶ Book block. The US Department of Justice successfully stopped the $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Had two companies tied the knot, the combo “would have accounted for nearly 30% of all consumer-book sales in the U.S.,” according to the Wall Street Journal, citing NPD BookScan data.
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