1.   Celebrity books are stocked mainly by the large chain stores and outlets that buy in bulk and then rapidly move books on and off the highly visible sales tables.

2.   For publishers, time is the enemy with celebrity books.

3.   Most celebrity books have a quick mortality.

4.   She was named in November to replace Harold Evans, who was associated with celebrity books by Dick Morris, Marlon Brando, Colin Powell and Michael Eisner.

5.   So, somewhere someone is writing a celebrity book that will be a blockbuster.

6.   The attraction of the celebrity book to any aspiring editor is pretty irresistible.

7.   The capital has produced its celebrity books, too, mostly forgettable political and social memoirs.

8.   The last celebrity book actually written by a celebrity is thought to be the memoir of Ulysses S. Grant, and Grant was dying as he wrote it.

9.   The temptation of betting on a celebrity book, with its potential to become a best seller along with its risks, was almost addictive.

10.   The subsequent flood of celebrity books for kids has mixed literary value.