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Paramount Agrees to Sell Simon and Schuster to KKR, a Private Equity Firm
- prirun 3y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643 Describes selling monopoly online e-book library access company to KKR. Are they trying to corner the book market?
- shubb 3y agoIn the current climate could be llm training material depending on the rights?
- richardatlarge 3y agoWhat’s almost never mentioned in countless articles on this saga is that most of these so called American publishing houses are wholly foreign owned. If the merger had gone through, at least 4 of the big 5 would have been foreign owned
- Finnucane 3y agoI worked for S&S some years ago, and I’d guess that in the short run at least this won’t make a lot of difference to them. It wasn’t like CBsViacom gave a crap about books.