As Congress’s January 6 hearings start to wind down, just four-tenths of a mile away at the District Court of Columbia Federal Court publishing’s own must-follow trial is due to start on August 1. The Department of Justice’s suit to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster — henceforth to be called A3 for brevity (August/Antitrust; three weeks of trial) — can be viewed by many in publishing in a similar vein as J6: A laborious investigation culminates with a public airing of findings that few expect to alter the course of the events, no matter what they […]