1.   ...a small but growing band of Japanese companies taking their first steps into American publishing.

2.   Even by the skewed standards of American publishing, John Grisham is a phenomenon.

3.   German publishing houses have taken huge stakes in American publishing.

4.   On the way back from lunch, they got into the elevator with AlbertoVitale, Random House president and one of the most powerful men in American publishing.

5.   The tweedy world of American publishing long ago ceased to be either tweedy or even all that American.

6.   They have altered the course of American publishing and in one case, changed California law.