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...Bertelsmann was dealt a further blow in the US last year when a New York judge blocked Penguin Random House from proceeding with a proposed $2.2bn acquisition of Simon & Schuster after the US justice department...
...But the sale of Simon & Schuster has become a page turner....
...KKR is in advanced talks to buy US book publisher Simon & Schuster from Paramount for more than $1.6bn, said people familiar with the matter, which would settle the fate of the storied company after years...
...Defenders of KKR point to successful investments in media companies such as BMG and Epic Games....
...It dismissed a proposal by the two companies to divest several hundred stores as “inadequate”....
...Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood by David Mamet Simon & Schuster £20/$27.99, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...Worse, pharmaceutical companies, governments and medical bodies conspired to keep the global scandal under wraps, despite whistleblower evidence....
...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher Little, Brown £25/Simon & Schuster $30, 320 pages Richard Waters is the FT’s tech writer at large Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and...
...That is why in every room our negotiators have been pushing tirelessly for decisions that align with staying under 1.5[C] degrees,” Schuster said....
...“We don’t want to sign the death certificate of our islands,” said Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster, Samoa’s minister for natural resources and the environment, after a meeting between UN secretary-general...
...Last year regulators blocked a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster on competition grounds. Read more on the latest attempt to sell Simon & Schuster. 4....
...Job moves Simon & Schuster announced a new board of directors following its takeover by KKR. Richard Sarnoff, chair of media at KKR, will serve as the book publisher’s new chair....
...The company will pay royalty fees to the biggest publishing houses — Penguin Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Macmillan — based on listening on its platform....
...KKR turned to a group of banks led by Jefferies to finance a $1.1bn loan for its takeover of book publisher Simon & Schuster....
...The failed $2.2bn publishing megamerger with Simon & Schuster cost Bertelsmann $200mn in termination fees alone....
...It’s coming out in early October in the UK (Allen Lane) and in January 2025 in the US (One Signal, Simon & Schuster). Your signed copy is (almost) in the post....
...Paramount, which is controlled by Shari Redstone, this year agreed to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to KKR....
...Simon & Schuster’s parent company, Paramount Global, sounded the death knell for the deal on Monday by deciding not to appeal against a ruling by a US federal judge that earlier this month blocked the tie-up...
...A “tour boom” — companies driving exhausted influencers from city to city to meet screaming fans — was fleeting, beset with security issues....
...When Simon & Schuster’s chief executive explained to staff this week why KKR had won the $1.6bn auction for the publisher, he highlighted something unusual about the private equity firm....
...Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) From its cover (echoing the design of Isaacson’s earlier biography of Steve Jobs) to its size (nearly 700 pages), this account of the world’s highest profile...
...In March he had said that the company would “probably not make profit” on the remaining stock....
...The companies argued that Simon & Schuster’s authors would benefit from Penguin Random House’s “efficient supply chain”, increasing their books’ visibility....
...Murder in My Dreams by David Oakley (published via Amazon)The second crime novel in the assistant companies editor’s “The Napoleon Mysteries” series....
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