1.   And increasingly, he said, publishers are taking the idea of online, electronic delivery seriously.

2.   And when was the last time a publisher took out a full-page ad in the New York Times Book Review for poetry?

3.   Chickering was chosen after the publishers took depositions of a number of arbitrarily chosen Texaco scientists.

4.   Confronted with that climate, paperback publishers have taken a variety of approaches, starting with the occupants of the top executive suites.

5.   Conventional publishers may take years before reprinting books for overseas markets.

6.   CyberPatrol had sued over the creation of that program, and the publishers took down the offending Web pages, waiting to see whether their actions wee legal.

7.   Magazines will sell products from the pages, and smart publishers will take a portion of the purchase price.

8.   More and more software publishers are taking advantage of the Net to give their titles more functions or to provide updates to their software.

9.   New York publishers took notice, as so often happens when authors establish themselves at smaller houses.

10.   Other publishers are taking similar steps.