When the first "Harry Potter" novel was published, the publisher asked her to use initials rather than her first name. This was because boys would be biased against a book written by a woman.

第一部哈里波特小说出版时，发行商建议她用缩写的大写字母代替她的名字，因为考虑到小男孩看见作家是女作家时，可能会有些歧视。

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The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine.

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Specifically, the publisher asked us not to introduce ourselves to an event Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron , which we were invited next week, we cannot cover it as planned.

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The publisher immediately asked for more.

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In the face of a declining subscriber base, intense competition from smaller, targeted newspapers in the area, and a lousy ad market I asked both the publisher and the general manager what they were going to do to drive revenue growth.

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