The Literati Gasp: Private Equity Firm Acquires Simon & Schuster

8/8/23
KKR to pay $1.62 Billion – all-cash deal:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/simon-schuster

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Amazon’s icon is smiling even more now.
Privately, of course.

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… time to invest in some mimeograph, ditto, and hectograph machinery. Oh yeah, and the good old standbys the manual typewriter and carbon paper (that is if the Russians haven’t bought all of this type of text reproduction technology). Low quality and High control is to be preferred over High quality and NO control. … and just for good measure we should throw in some telegraph equipment as well. Just sayin’ …

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Perfect picture of you in action.
Analogue is the way to assure as little interference as possible.
Smoke is your covid1984 protection screen.
Love your ‘biz’ look!

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Absolutely, RB – How could I ever write on a manual typewriter without a cig?