That could mean perceptive media people or well-connected publishing entrepreneurs.

Tom Hartle is a publishing entrepreneur.

Mr. Evans had enlisted Kohlberg, Kravis last year in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the sale of Macmillan to Robert Maxwell, the British publishing entrepreneur.

Tony Wheeler is an English-Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.

Robin Wolaner, a publishing entrepreneur in San Francisco who founded Parenting magazine, said she learned the hard way not to share her succession plans with the anointed one.

"There is no one formula for what works in China," said Jesse Ning of Maxworld, a publishing entrepreneur in Beijing.

The bridegroom, who is known as Chis, is a retired publishing entrepreneur.

Maureen Wheeler is a Northern Irish-Australian publishing entrepreneur, businesswoman, and a co-founder of Lonely Planet with her husband Tony Wheeler.

Robert Maxwell, the British publishing entrepreneur, has apparently won the long, bitter $2.5 billion fight for Macmillan Inc., the New York-based publishing and information services company.

In addition, the British publishing entrepreneur vowed to to expand Macmillan's international presence.