1.   Retailers and software publishers are also catching on.

2.   Spyglass licenses its programs to other software publishers including Microsoft Corp.

3.   There are business deals linking cable companies with entertainment providers, phone companies with movie studios, software publishers with hardware makers.

4.   These files are usually available on bulletin boards and Web sites set up by the individual software publishers.

5.   In many of these cases, Commodore is funding either most or all of the development and is acting as the software publisher.

6.   The software publisher will prefer to grant a licence because he will want to retain the copyright in the software and be free to grant licences to others.

7.   Analysts said educational software stocks fell because of lower-than-expected earnings from Broderbund Software Inc., the biggest educational software publisher.

8.   And what of the fears that software publishers are deserting Apple in droves?

9.   As a very young software publisher, Chait jumped at the opporunity.

10.   At the same time, the new across-the-computing-board strategy raises challenges that the software publisher has not previously faced.