The Internet, on the other hand, includes anonymous "publishers" who are accountable to no one and yet have the power to reveal secrets with impunity, if not always with credibility.
This Anonymous, the publishers claim, is someone who has been in the room with Barack Obama, though whether that's the men's room or a ballroom, they are not saying.
The publisher solicited anonymous expert reports, a common practice in academic publishing.
Last year, his agent showed the manuscript to several book publishers and told them the anonymous author was a published novelist and writer for a major business magazine.
Simon & Schuster will publish the anonymous "O: A Presidential Novel" this month, a political fantasy novel described as "provocative" by its publisher Jonathan Karp on a new website created for the book.
Anonymous An old-time publishing lion once told me that Graham Greene, when faced with an editor's suggestion to change the title of a book, replied, "Easier to change publishers" — and did.
Police said there was no clear motive for either attack nor a clear link but that the anonymous package was a warning to the publisher.
When the site's publisher, Sys-Con Media, refused, anonymous callers bombarded employees with obscene phone calls and e-mails.They also badgered Sys-Con's advertisers to get them to pull ads from Sys-Con sites.
One publisher, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that Microsoft has cut his payout by 80 to 90percentt and that many of the publishers on PubCenter are leaving to go back to AdSense.
A few months ago, an anonymous manuscript landed on the desk of the publisher Next Century Books, which appeared to be a diary account of a contract killer.
