Judge rules that giant U.S. book merger may not go forward

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge ruled on

Monday that a planned $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random

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House, the world’s largest book publisher and owned by German

media group Bertelsmann SE & Co, may not merge with rival

Simon & Schuster, owned by Paramount Global.

(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Leslie Adler)