The Justice Department is Placing a Massive Book Publishing Merger on Hold
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Stephen King is known as many things: the king of horror, a short story extraordinaire, noted philanthropist. Soon he'll don a new identity at the center of a drama unfolding in real life: star witness.
The US Department of Justice is calling the author to the stand as it sues to block a merger between mega book publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. The trial, which starts today, will presumably be worthy of a John Grisham novel.
Source Fool.com