The Authors Guild, along with five other writers' groups and the nonprofit Open Markets Institute, has sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking the government to block Penguin Random House's pending acquisition of Simon & Schuster. In asking for the DoJ to step in, the organizations framed the proposed acquisition as part of the ongoing consolidation within the entire publishing industry-including in the bookselling field, which is now dominated by Amazon-that the letter writers say has gone too far.
Authors Guild Asks DoJ to Stop PRH Purchase of S&S
1 February 2021
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