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  1. 2021

    美国起诉阻止Penguin Random House收购Simon & Schuster

    提起诉讼

    美国司法部提起反垄断诉讼，要求阻止Penguin Random House拟议收购Simon & Schuster。诉状称，该交易会减少争夺预期畅销书出版权的竞争。

    品牌回应

    • 否认 — Penguin Random House

      In a statement, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster stated that they would fight the lawsuit

    来源摘录

    • An antitrust lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court warns that such an acquisition would hurt competition for top-selling manuscripts.
    • Karp wrote that his company and Penguin Random House see no basis for the lawsuit and that they plan to fight it.
    • The complaint alleges that the acquisition of Simon & Schuster for $2.175 billion would put Penguin Random House in control of close to half the market for acquiring publishing rights to anticipated top-selling books, leaving hundreds of individual authors with fewer options and less leverage.
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  2. 2021

    英国竞争监管机构调查企鹅兰登书屋收购西蒙与舒斯特交易

    调查

    英国竞争与市场管理局对企鹅兰登书屋拟以20亿美元收购西蒙与舒斯特的交易启动调查，审查该交易是否会实质性削弱英国市场竞争。该交易当时尚未完成。

    来源摘录

    • The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Penguin Random House’s $2bn (£1.45bn) takeover of Simon & Schuster, a deal rivals have warned will create a “behemoth of books” with too much power in the global publishing industry.
    • On Monday, the Competition and Markets Authority said it was considering whether the deal, which cements PRH’s position as the world’s biggest book publisher, would result in a “substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services”.
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  3. 2020

    Audible与出版商就Captions诉讼达成和解

    和解

    Audible与多家出版商就Audible Captions解决了争议。出版商此前指称该功能未经授权将有声读物转换为文本并进行分发。双方律师称预计于1月21日前提交和解文件。来源未提供有关和解条款的更多细节。

    Audible与出版商就Audible Captions解决了争议。出版商此前指称该功能未经授权将有声读物转换为文本并进行分发。双方律师称预计于1月21日前提交和解文件；来源未提供更多和解细节。

    来源摘录

    • Seven publishers, including the “Big Five” – Penguin Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Macmillan – sued Audible in August
    • “Audible Captions takes publishers’ proprietary audiobooks, converts the narration into unauthorised text, and distributes the entire text of these ‘new’ digital books to Audible’s customers,” said the lawsuit.
    • In a letter filed this week in federal court in New York, Audible’s attorneys, writing on behalf of both sides, announced that the parties had resolved their disputes and expected to submit the settlement documents by 21 January.
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