The AP’s David Rising reported this morning that Bertelsmann AG will be selling BMG to Vivendi for more than $2 billion, making Vivendi by far the “largest music publisher by catalog size.”
It’s unclear if this does anything big that will be seen by the average consumer purchasing music, except for the potential for the “rich get richer” situation to continue on as now Universal Music Group will have even more control over music’s overall catalog.
