"One reason is the shortage of big-name authors, and the competition for them among the publishing conglomerates."

"Most publishers had a bad summer, as far as I can tell," said an executive at a house that is part of a publishing conglomerate.

Or that international publishing conglomerates would kill off the huge advances.

At first, the newspaper was part of a publishing conglomerate owned by the Polish United Workers' Party.

Her father is the president and chief operating officer of the Meredith Corporation, the publishing conglomerate, in Des Moines.

At another publishing conglomerate, rivalry among several houses for a book is said to have abated only after the company president played referee by telephone from an airplane.

All I know is that, despite his transition from jeans to suits for work in a publishing conglomerate, my husband's hair was still down to his shoulders.

"The people upstairs," she says of the executives who run the publishing conglomerates, "don't have a clue about who we are or what we are doing."

Wisden was acquired and published by Robert Maxwell's publishing conglomerate, Macdonald, in the 1970s.

Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan.