Book Publisher Simon & Schuster Sold To Rival

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Bob Woodward’s book Rage was one of a wave of highly publicized books Simon & Schuster published this year critical of President Trump.





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Since then, Simon & Schuster has been the center of attention over the summer for publishing books critical of President Trump, including John Bolton’s memoir The Room Where it Happened, Mary L. Trump’s book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, and the Bob Woodward book Rage.

Should the sale go through, it’d be an even further consolidation of the book publishing industry. It wasn’t so long ago that Penguin and Random House were separate companies.