Last year - among a few other things - Simon & Schuster was purchased by Penguin Random House. Yet the inevitability of that result shouldn’t overshadow the months of speculation that preceded it. Simon & Schuster is one of the Big Five, and the names of potential buyers from NewsCorp to Netflix were floated by industry insiders and outsiders. Including one particular name, the biggest, baddest wolf of them all: Amazon.
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