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Under the most recent two Democratic presidents, though, monopsony theory has slowly become more mainstream. In 2016, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers released an issues brief arguing that consolidation across industries could lead to monopsonistic labor markets that depressed worker wages. In 2021, Congress introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act, which would amend existing antitrust law to explicitly preclude monopsonies. Just this past July, President Joe Biden signed an executive order promising to use antitrust laws to combat “the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony,” noting that his administration would be “especially” focused on the way these issues affect labor markets. The country’s largest publisher has had a rocky few months since a deal to buy a rival fell through, and some of its top executives left.
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This fourth PRH distribution center enhances our capability and flexibility to expedite bookseller initial and reorder shipments for our imprints’ frontlists and backlists, and for those of PRHPS clients. “Initials” is the process of picking, packing and shipping newly released titles on a tight schedule designed for titles to land at bookstores nationwide in time for their assigned on-sale dates. Initials are currently handled from Westminster’s Hahn Road warehouse and from Crawfordsville.
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In 1957, Penguin Random House pioneered the beginning reader genre when it launched the Beginner Books series with Dr. Seuss's classic The Cat in the Hat. Penguin Random House's Yearling Books imprint, established in 1966, was one of the first to produce paperback editions of popular novels. Penguin Random House led the way again in 1984 with another new series, Step into Reading, the first original paperback line in the beginning reader genre and the first series to carry grade and reading level distinctions on its covers. “Under the position advanced by the board … school officials have unfettered discretion to remove or restrict access to library books for any reason, including to suppress ideas for nakedly political or partisan reasons,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote. Penguin Random House will continue to invest in the best people and in Supply Chain improvements, to ensure that our distribution network will always offer our accounts the best customer service and shortest order-to-delivery time in the book-publishing industry.
Through our campaigns, partnerships, and internal initiatives, we strive to shape a more equitable, diverse, and sustainable world. The story of American publishing over the past 100 years is the story of an industry consolidating itself, and of that consolidation encouraging homogeneity, blandness, and the safest possible publishing decisions. It remains to be seen whether the court’s decision in this case will turn that consolidation around. The most likely next step for Simon & Schuster, after all, is to merge with HarperCollins instead. Instead of a market with only one seller who can charge whatever they like, a monopsony is a market with only one buyer, who can set their price however they like.
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