Last year Penguin Random House expressed its intent on purchasing another publishing company, Simon & Schuster, for $2.175 billion. The American Booksellers Association felt that this would build a monopoly and hurt authors and editors, so they requested the Department of Justice get involved. That …Read more »
It was recently announced that publisher Penguin Random House is planning to purchase publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for more than two billion dollars. Penguin and Random House were previously two enormous publishers that combined, and the idea of a third enormous publisher being …Read more »
Publishing company Simon & Schuster, previously owned by ViacomCBS, will be sold to Penguin Random House for a little over $2 billion, it was reported today. What does that mean for manga, exactly? A lot, potentially. S&S distributes manga released by Viz Manga. Meanwhile, Penguin …Read more »
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