31.   Publishing executives also noted that her effect on book sales, while still enormous, had declined in recent months.

32.   Publishing executives also noted that her effect on book sales, while still enormous, has declined in recent months.

33.   Publishing executives say Knight-Ridder has been ambivalent about The Journal of Commerce for a long time.

34.   Publishing executives across the industry expect advertising revenue to sink through the rest of the year.

35.   Publishing executives, however, insist that the computer trade magazines are still doing brisk business and that ad budgets are increasing over all.

36.   Publishing executives, however, say the real reason is that the record is too dismal to disclose.

37.   Romanos was among the publishing executives who went to Seattle to meet with Amazon founder and chairman Jeffrey P. Bezos.

38.   Readers who turn out for lectures by New Age authors are women more often than men and usually have some college education, publishing executives say.

39.   Several publishing executives responded with a mixture of disgust and apprehension.

40.   Several publishing executives Thursday questioned the wisdom of filling such a high position with someone without direct book publishing experience.