91.   Publishers are well aware that even a best seller can turn into a financial dud with an overpaid author and a big print run.

92.   Publishers have been acutely conscious of the falloff since then, which has been accompanied by large number of returns from bookstores to publishers.

93.   Publishers have been concerned that newsstand consolidation would slow sales.

94.   Publishers have historically been loath to release hard-cover titles in the summer, preferring to wait for the more bookish fall.

95.   Publishers were unwilling to comment on any discussions.

96.   Publishers will also be eager to publish more books like it, since best-seller lists also stand in for industrywide sales data.

97.   Publishers are circumspect about how much of their product actually comes from computers.

98.   Publishers were also there, in anticipation of a planned auction of rights to a book Menzies is writing.

99.   Publishers were concerned that electronic publication of novels would lead to unsecured distribution over the Internet so they withheld new releases and best sellers from their fledgling formats.

100.   Publishers are fair-weather friends to writers.