The publisher promised a fat $500,000 advance, of which one-third, or $166,666, was paid immediately.

The publisher promised to add citations in future editions.

His publisher purchased one and promised to keep the purchase a secret.

The publisher promises updates at its own Web site (www.nostarch.com) but two months after the book's publication, no updates were to be found.

Mortenson's publisher, Viking, has promised to carry out a thorough review of the book.

The Fringe Inducements Another indication of the appetite for megabooks is that publishers will promise almost anything to writers who they think can produce them.

I apologize for these errors...." He and his publisher promised to correct future printings.

(The publisher, at least, promises the book will have a fresh title.)

The publishers have promised advertisers a circulation of 150,000.

Banks's publishers are always promising a return to the blackly comic rites-of-passage territory of The Crow Road.