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01.11.2022 - 03:15 / deadline.com
A federal judge ruled in favor of the Justice Department in its effort to block to merger of Penguin Random House with Simon & Schuster.
In granting an injunction to halt the transaction, Judge Florence Pan wrote that the companies were “enjoined and restrained from consummating the proposed merger, or otherwise effecting a combination of Penguin Random House, LLC, and Simon & Schuster, Inc.”
Pan’s full opinion has yet to be made public, but she wrote that she found that “the United States has shown that ‘the effect of [the proposed merger] may be substantially to lessen competition’ in the market for the U.S. publishing rights to anticipated top-selling books.”
Pan also ordered both sides in the case to meet to discuss proposed redactions to the opinion, which was kept under seal because it included confidential corporate information.
Her ruling is a significant victory for the Biden-era Justice Department, which challenged the $2.2 billion transaction on the basis of its impact on the workforce, rather than on consumers, as is typically the case.
More specifically, the DOJ argued that the merger would diminish advances for high profile titles, or anticipated best selling books, driving down advances for authors. Among those who testified for the government in the 13-day trial was Stephen King, who told the judge in the non-jury trial that “consolidation is bad for the competition.”
Dan Petrocelli, representing Penguin Random House, argued that the government had created “an artificial market to create artificial concentration to create artificial harm.” He also challenged the methodology that the government used to scrutinize the merger.
The DOJ claimed that the Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster transaction
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A federal judge’s ruling that blocked a $2.18 billion merger between book publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is being hailed by the WGA West as a “tremendous victory for authors who, like screen and television writers, try to make a living selling their work to powerful conglomerates.”
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