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PRH empowers its 320 publishers around the world with maximum creative and entrepreneurial freedom and will, of course, extend this to our new colleagues at Simon & Schuster.”įounded as a publisher of theological texts, Bertelsmann is a private conglomerate spanning magazine, educational and music publishing, and also controls European TV group RTL. We share the same passion for books and reading and will work together to give our authors the greatest possible access to readers worldwide. Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House CEO and a member of the Bertelsmann executive board, said: “We are very proud to welcome this esteemed company, founded in 1924, to our global publishing community. Rabe described books as the “past, present and future” of Bertelsmann but also highlighted the US publishing deal’s significance for its digital content as people turn to e-books or listen to audiobooks. The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Penguin Random House’s 2bn (£1.

Simon & Schuster currently publishes around 2,000 books a year, on top of a catalogue of 35,000 titles, while Penguin Random House publishes 15,000 titles a year. Department of Justice’s surprise lawsuit against Penguin Random House’s 2.2 billion agreement to buy rival publisher Simon & Schuster almost a year ago. The merging of publishers over the last decade has lead to bestseller lists increasingly dominated by a handful of blockbusters from imprints that are part of the same umbrella publisher. Last week, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson warned that a Bertelsmann win would lead to an anti-competitive “behemoth of books” that would control one=third of the US book market. Penguin Random House’s deal to buy Simon & Schuster, a rival publisher, is close to collapsing after Simon & Schuster’s parent company decided to allow the purchase agreement to expire. Taking the stand as the governments final witness in its antitrust case aiming to block Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster, a longtime. Rabe told reporters the merged entity would have a US market share of less than 20%, making the deal clearly “approvable”, noting that the 2013 merger of its own Random House with Penguin had met no objections from US regulators. Court Blocks PRH-Simon & Schuster Acquisition In Newsby Porter AndersonOctoIn the United States, Judge Pan rules against the merger of trade book publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. The deal to acquire Simon & Schuster – which reported revenue of $814m (£599m) last year, is profitable and employs 1,500 staff – is expected to close in 2021, subject to regulatory approval. ‘Good day for publishing and authors’ … Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann.

Prh simon and schuster