1.   And publishers are starting to offer digital textbooks can simply be downloaded from the Internet.

2.   And publishers are starting to embrace the idea of digital books for exactly that reason.

3.   As enrollment lagged and profits declined in the recession, production and marketing expenses were increasing and the major publishers started to merge to compete.

4.   But the walkout came at a bad time for the book publishing industry, because this is the week that most trade publishers start shipping major titles for fall.

5.   In the last two years, magazine publishers started Spanish-language editions of Newsweek, Glamour, Discover, People, National Geographic and Rolling Stone.

6.   Major publishers started their black imprints partly to capitalize on the growth in that market.

7.   Publishers have started papers as old ones were shut.

8.   So book publishers started to awaken from the somnolence that often embraces them when it comes to the new and started to take notice.

9.   Some Western publishers started looking for new, as yet unknown masterpieces from the Soviet Union.

10.   The major publishers started their black imprints partly to capitalize on the marketing potential of that grass-roots network.