Within the book industry, printers often fly some copies of the finished book to publishers as sample copies to aid sales or to be sent out for pre-release reviews.

Despite this, promotional appearances including a short live set and signing at London's HMV Oxford Street did not aid sales- the album charted at number 13.

Also aiding sales were deregulatory measures that pushed banks and manufacturers to overhaul some of their operations and embrace Western networking concepts like companywide raw-materials planning, customer relationship management and data mining.

Robert Weil, the St. Martin's editor who acquired the Spender books, said that the publicity generated by the lawsuit would certainly aid sales.

The idea was to maximize the publicity effect of the tour for aiding sales of the already heavily-promoted new album by visiting as many markets as possible.

The heavy singles release schedule from Erotica in the UK charts was to aid sales of the parent album and keep Madonna songs on the radio airplay schedules.

To aid sales of his systems, he encouraged other software companies to develop applications programs (which tell the computer how to work as a word processor, spreadsheet, database manager and the like) for use with them.

By this point, the Red Bull's reputation was irrevocably tarnished; its name appears rarely on quarto title pages, suggesting either that its offerings were not worth publishing, or that publishers doubted the name would aid sales.

Mr. Gumbinger added that assumable fixed-rate mortgages might aid sales of homes only if the houses were not moving because of prevailing interest rates, not because of other difficulties, like inflated prices.

This is done to aid sales and to discourage copying (in fact Modiri addresses this very candidly before the beginning of the first episode).