The announcement of Penguin Random House’s agreement to acquire Simon & Schuster was met quickly with a number of statements and articles in opposition. The Authors Guild (it’s “creating a huge imbalance in the US publishing industry”) and the American Booksellers Association (it “will mean too much power over authors and readers in the hands of a single corporation”) will both ask the Department of Justice to block the deal. The Association of Canadian Publishers is asking both the Competition Bureau and the Department of Canadian Heritage to review the deal. They say the merger would “have a direct and […]