The Justice Department could block two of the country’s biggest publishers from joining forces, as a trial kicks off Monday to determine whether Penguin Random House should be allowed to buy Simon & ...

The Department of Justice thinks a proposed deal for Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House to buy fellow heavyweight publisher Simon & Schuster will unfairly skew the publishing market and is suing to ...

The Justice Department sued to block Penguin Random House‘s proposed merger with Simon & Schuster, arguing that the transaction would create a behemoth publisher likely to drive down payments to ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann’s proposed acquisition of Viacom CBS subsidiary Simon & Schuster, arguing that it “would result in ...

The Justice Department is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the industry, saying consolidation would hurt authors and, ultimately, readers. PATAGONIA IS ...

The administration said the proposed merger "would likely harm competition in the publishing industry." That loss of competition would undermine authors' power to obtain advances and other services ...

There are five big publishing houses in the United States right now, and one of them, Penguin Random House, wants to buy Simon & Schuster, one of its most robust rivals, for $2.75 billion dollars. But ...

An Ethereum researcher has introduced a novel block proposal mechanism aimed at decentralizing Ethereum's block-building process. The proposal, dubbed the "Decentralized Random Block Proposal," ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a major antitrust lawsuit seeking to block a proposed merger of the publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Attorney General ...