Indie publisher Chad W. Post writes: “When it was announced November 25 that Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the US, was going to acquire the third largest, Simon & Schuster, to form a mega-press (PRHS&S?), the outcry was swift and plentiful. Consolidation in the book industry is never popular, but at a time when diversity—of employees, authors, books and opinions—is being scrutinized in every corner, it feels especially ill-timed.”