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The evolution has also been accelerated by the competition to acquire big commercial books in both hard cover and paperback.

Two commercial books give information in chart form with the names of people to contact, important on campuses in the summer.

Hutchmeyer is a brash American publisher, known for publishing unremittingly commercial books.

"Many very commercial books become part of the backlist," he said, "and many good books never go back to press even once."

Reg Brack and I had philosophical discussions about buying more commercial books.

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Esther Newburg, a literary agent, said that even writers of "commercial books gravitate toward literary titles.

The decision comes as the publishing industry has been accused by some writers of favoring commercial books at the expense of less profitable works of literary value.

The pressure comes from large discount stores that can offer deeper price discounts on commercial books by top-selling authors like John Grisham and Tom Clancy.

I hope that the board of directors of Mlada Fronta allows us to be free to publish nonprofit poetry, for example, and not just commercial books.

The big houses usually deny they concentrate on commercial books, and most of them do still take chances on first novelists, in hopes of eventually recouping their investment.

"Le Grand Secret," written by Mr. Mitterrand's personal physician, Charles Gubler, is one of the first commercial books widely available on the Internet.

He has published academic and commercial books on a range of subjects, focusing primarily in modern Canadian politics, Canadian defence and foreign policy, and Canadian military history.

And under Ms. Crichton, Little, Brown's literary list already included some highly commercial books like Paula Barbieri's book about O. J. Simpson.

Publishers who are still considered literary increasingly publish big commercial books, and the big commercial houses either publish literary books or set up imprints and divisions to do so.

But a recent resurgence of the independents has emboldened houses to publish books that lack the mass-market appeal favored by the chains, and enabled less overtly commercial books to become best sellers.

Bowker is the United States provider of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs), a code for identifying commercial books devised by Gordon Foster in 1967.

Keith Warren Jennison, a writer, editor and publisher who became an early leader in the publishing of large-type commercial books, died on Thursday in his home in Castleton, Vt.

Hundreds of Subjects The booksellers' convention is a useful reminder that American publishers issue not only big commercial books, but books on botany, history, beekeeping, cooking, gardening and hundreds of other subjects.

What is left in print, besides commercial books, are magazines offering young women fashion and beauty advice, as well as practical tips from finding clothing bargains to snagging that handsome office colleague who works at the distant workstation.

In 2001 Martin Rait obtained a license from Marc Miller for FSpace Publications to publish a small set of commercial books for Meshan Sector during the Classic Traveller period.

These terms are not further defined; they include taking the evidence of witnesses and of experts, viewing a place, and examining commercial books and records; they do not include any acte d'execution such as ordering the return of an abducted child.

Mr. Hoffman was also a target of literary critics, some of whom denounced him and the bookstore chains - unfairly, in the view of most publishers - as emblematic of the promotion of overtly commercial books at the expense of literary novels and high-quality nonfiction.

"Some publishers clearly are interested mostly in commercial books," Mr. Van Dusen said, "while other publishers and other houses try consciously to have a variety of books -some of which they know will sell well, others they know will sell modestly but will add to the interest and importance of the imprint."