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Simon & Schuster had a string of political bestsellers in this election year, including Mary Trump’s family memoir, Rage by Bob Woodward and Sean Hannity’s Live Free or Die. Photograph: iStock
Bertelsmann wins battle for Simon & Schuster with $2.18bn deal

Bertelsmann has agreed to buy Simon & Schuster for almost $2.2 billion (€1.85 billion), with the owner of Penguin Random House insisting it is “ve(...)

Sumner Redstone, then chairman of Viacom in a Blockbuster store in Manhattan, New York City, in 1998. Photograph: New York Times
It was business, it was personal: the Redstones’ father-daughter feud

In more than 50 years as a force in the media industry, Sumner Redstone clashed with his only son, his nephew, his wife, his romantic partners, his bu(...)