“Antitrust Enforcement is Back,” Open Markets proclaims.
We can only hope.
Corporate monopolization has drastically diminished the quality and variety of books published, so hurray for the court ruling today preventing Penguin Random House from subsuming Simon & Schuster.
For years, neither Republican nor Democratic administrations have pursued anti-trust actions, and the results for America have been disastrous. Now, Garland’s Department of Justice is signaling a new chapter.