71.   But she also grew accustomed to unquestioned control over the publishing house and star treatment from its parent company, Pearson.

72.   But Massey is one of a growing number of authors using electronic media to circumvent traditional publishing houses.

73.   But the anecdotes were what persuaded Lorenzo Ruggiero, the editor in chief of Kaos, a small publishing house in Milan, to publish the book.

74.   But the publishing house has not made an offer.

75.   By contrast, there are five African-American imprints at major publishing houses, and there are a large number of reading clubs in black bookstores and churches and homes.

76.   Christine Johansen, office manager at the publishing house, said colleagues were hoping for the best.

77.   Consequently, first readers have more or less disappeared from publishing houses, and publishers have turned to literary agents to screen the masses and their manuscripts.

78.   Consolidation among the companies that control the newsstand and among advertisers and their agencies has left many publishing houses with little power and even smaller profit margins.

79.   DEAL FOR LITTLE, BROWN UNIT The Dutch publishing house Wolters Kluwer plans to buy a Little, Brown unit.

80.   Earlier this year, a small publishing house in Alexandria, Va., Orchises Press, said it would publish it in book form.