There's tension, left over from the first film, between Harper and Lance (Morris Chestnut), a legendary professional football player, that only gets worse when Harper's publisher pressures him to ghostwrite Lance's autobiography.
Among the factors weighing on the publisher was pressure from The Times's outside law firm, Lord, Day & Lord.
The winners of Bookninja's literary-rebranding competition — inspired by Margaret Drabble's recent complaint that her publisher was pressuring her to "rebrand" her work — were announced yesterday.
Some agents and writers worry that any combination of the two publishers may pressure the advances that writers are paid; it will almost certainly reduce the number of titles published under lucrative contracts, though self-publishing may be boosted.
By Ligaya Mishan October 28, 2008 The winners of Bookninja's literary-rebranding competition — inspired by Margaret Drabble's recent complaint that her publisher was pressuring her to "rebrand" her work — were announced yesterday.
Ernesto van der Sar, editor of Torrentfreak.com, a news site about file sharing, says: "This increase in requests is more about publishers putting pressure on Google to do more to tackle piracy.
Publishers cite pressures from parents who are mindful of increasingly rigorous standardized testing in schools.
As he writes in the introduction to Friendly Fire: "[Suddenly] publishers started pressuring me to give them anything I'd written".
Mr. Seaver was a literary hero who, while at Grove Press, another small independent publisher, defied social pressures and censorship to publish works by D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs.
The conflict, which is being closely watched by other publishers, underscores the pressure on the publishing industry and Barnes & Noble as they try to compete with online retailers like Amazon.
