1.   Kelman had a book published in the U.S. more than a decade before a British publisher would touch him.

2.   The action failed, but the costs were potentially ruinous for the British publishers.

3.   And in Pakistan, Hamid Mir, editor of the Urdu newspaper Ausaf, says an unnamed British publisher will release his authorized biography of bin Laden in December.

4.   A British publisher has offered to buy The Journal of Commerce, people familiar with the details of the offer said.

5.   A British publisher, EMAP PLC, has acquired three British golf magazines from The New York Times Co.

6.   British publishers are grumbling these days over some snappy little upstarts that have staged a remarkable coup.

7.   British publishers, who operate under much tougher libel laws than those in the United States, declined to issue the book.

8.   Even with Little representing the book, though, at least four more major British publishers rejected it.

9.   He said that several British publishers rejected the project because of fears that Fayed might mount a court battle against it.

10.   In such cases, he said, if a British publisher provides documentation about a British version, the American version is removed from the database.