Agent Provocateur S2 Ep 01: On the American DOJ Vs. The Proposed PRH and S&S Merger Agent Provocateur

We launch Season 2 with a panel discussion of the US Department of Justice bid to block the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.  Elaine Dewar (author of The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada’s Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational), and Jonathan Tepper (author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, with Denise Hearn), discussing the DOJ's bid to stop a merger that would change the landscape of publishing.