Simon & Schuster’s Private-Equity Marriage Looks Good on Paper, but Will the Honeymoon Last?

In the newspaper world, a sale to private equity tends to feel like a funeral, with ink-stained wretches lamenting the slow and painful death of their industry. In the adjacent world of book publishing, the news this week that KKR would acquire Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global hardly seemed…

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