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Hey, guys.

This is an interesting bit of news from the book publishing world. Random House is positioned to buy Simon & Schuster. This would reduce the number of mainstream, large-scale book publishers to four, from five.

At this point it is difficult to now if this is a good thing or a bad thing for book sales, prices, authors and readers. Check out the New York Times article above if you want to read more details.

In the meantime, happy reading!

Don wrote: "Hey, guys.

This is an interesting bit of news from the book publishing world. Random House is positioned to buy Simon & Schuster. This would reduce the number of mainstream, large-scale book publ..."

I think things like this rarely benefit anyone but the company, I hadn't even considered how it will hurt authors looking for advances/bids until it was mentioned in the article. I don't think this is a good thing.