11.   It is also why the book buyer is such an opinionated creature with such intractable ideas about how a book should be evaluated, acquired, treated and organized.

12.   Liz Hartman, vice president and director of publicity for Pocket Books, believes the Internet actually stimulated interest among book buyers rather than dampening it.

13.   Owners and book buyers at independent stores say the loss of stores like Endicott will mean cultural impoverishment for the city.

14.   Rick Simonson, a book buyer at Elliott Bay Book Co. in Seattle, said his store ordered the book in modest quantities.

15.   Salzberger has patented a process that lets a book buyer add a portrait and an inscription to the jacket when buying a book.

16.   So gift book buyers should beware of foreign gardening books, usually British, that have been purchased by American trade publishers and are being promoted in this country.

17.   That may partly explain why so many book buyers who compare prices at a search site like Isbn.nu still purchase from Amazon.com in the end.

18.   The indifference, though, did not seem to bother dozens of book buyers who swarmed around Betancourt last week as she went from one book signing to another.

19.   The owners seem less unhappy with their landlord than with fickle book buyers.

20.   The most reliable and free-spending group of book buyers was raised on paper.