Nita Pronovost among senior staffers to depart Simon & Schuster Canada in recent months
The moves come at a time of great change for the company.
Private equity firm KKR agrees to purchase Simon & Schuster for $1.6 billion USD
Finding a private buyer for the house will likely help forestall regulatory pushback on antitrust grounds.
News orgs report a deal may be close in the sale of multinational Simon & Schuster
Job losses may be inevitable no matter who ends up purchasing S&S.
Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all
Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
Paramount Global cancels deal to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House after antitrust ruling
PRH reiterated its belief that Judge Pan's decision was wrong and that it had intended to appeal.
Judge Florence Pan finds a “compelling case” that the proposed merger of PRH and S&S would result in “substantial harm” to industry competition
Judge Pan's decision helps protect that part of the publishing ecosystem that does not fall under the umbrella of the Big Five.
U.S. judge Florence Pan rules against publishers in decision blocking the merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
The U.S. Department of Justice called the ruling "a victory for authors, readers, and the free exchange of ideas."
“No special treatment”: Madeline McIntosh, PRH U.S. CEO, claims in court that books are treated equally in-house, notwithstanding the stature of the author or the amount paid for them
"Once a book with a big advance is in-house ... it gets no special treatment," McIntosh said on the stand.
Publishers as “angels” and other weird assertions from Markus Dohle cap a busy week at DoJ v. PRH antitrust trial
Dohle suggested on the stand that publishers resembled the "Silicon Valley of media" and compared their work to that of angel investors in business.
Stephen King and Jonathan Karp square off in the early days of the DoJ/PRH/S&S antitrust suit
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."