Private equity firm buying Simon & Schuster for $1.6B

NEW YORK -- Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market.

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