1.   Their business came from a few big publishers, all of whose books they bound.

2.   At the recent BookExpo America convention in Chicago, big publishers Ballantine and Doubleday stopped by the booth to inquire about its fall books.

3.   Big publishers dream about first-time authors like Benjamin Kaplan.

4.   Big publishers, and publishers who want to become big, are busy launching magazines for the Hispanic market.

5.   Big publishers have great difficulty duplicating their time-honored business model, which is based on charging advertisers to reach a measurable universe of subscribers.

6.   Big publishers that had been expected to make offers for Ziff-Davis included Bertelsmann AG of Germany and the British-Dutch company Reed Elsevier PLC.

7.   A big publisher is creating the lounge to promote one of its magazines with consumers, celebrities and advertisers.

8.   Earlier this year, another big German publisher, Bertelsmann, acquired Random House, prompting concerns among some American authors about the German inroads.

9.   He notes that big publishers in Spain, Japan and Italy have resisted and, in effect, accepted limits on growth.

10.   In addition, big publishers may lose some power to push new publications.