"publisher's note" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a short statement or message written by the publisher of a book or other written work, often found at the beginning or end of the work. The purpose of a publisher's note can vary, but it is often used to provide context or background information about the work, express gratitude, or acknowledge any special circumstances surrounding the publication. Example: "Before delving into the novel, readers should take note of the publisher's note at the beginning, which sheds light on the real-life events that inspired the story."
Lindsley published the letter, and then added a mocking publisher's note.
"No shadow hangs over these pages, despite the circumstances," Mr. Hubbard wrote in a publisher's note appended to "American Gun" that is the only acknowledgment of the shooting.
The publisher's note for the tome says of its subject: "No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A publisher's note says it is based on the so-called "anonymous" 1886 translation which, I gather, was originally translated into English from a French translation.
An eighth and final chapter consists, as the publisher's note informs us, of unfinished "fragmentary jottings" that he wrote in his terminal days in the critical-care unit of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
According to a publisher's note in the Dover Publications collection of his work, Étienne de Silhouette "amused himself by cutting portraits from paper" in the mid-1700's, when he was also the comptroller general of France.
Other Information on the Web: Night by Elie Wiesel (//www.nightthebook.com/) contains the publisher's notes and a teachers' guide for the book.
Included were all articles in the parent journal or supplement for which an on-line abstract is available; excluded from further consideration were publisher's notes, editorials, commentaries, introductions to special sections, letters to the editor, columns, book reviews, or any other items not accompanied by an on-line abstract.
The note is on creamy paper, with the publisher's name printed at the top.
We can leave that little problem to Lee Siegel's publisher, and note what this collection makes emphatically clear: Siegel's valuable role as a cultural provocateur, tossing off intellectual grenades about the social tyranny of money or the failures of the Bush administration while ostensibly defending the dumb sitcom "Joey" or skewering the hit "My Name Is Earl".
[Ed.'s note to publishers: Don't make the same mistake the music companies made by limiting how people can consume your books].
