This is a great long read about the lawsuit at the heart of the attempt of Penguin/Random House's owner to buy Simon and Shuster. But it's really about publishing and the book industry more broadly. It's even got a Stephen King cameo.

At Random
by Christian Lorentzen
The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/at-random-simon-and-schuster-bertelsmann-merger-trial-penguin-random-house/

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