21.   So the question is how big a risk she is willing to take to stay with a small publisher.

22.   That has benefited small black publishers and bookstores.

23.   The devotion of small publishers to this niche has also begun to pay off.

24.   The Meadowbrook Press, a small publisher based in Minnesota, said foreign-rights sales were up one-third from last year.

25.   The Perseus Book Group, founded as a white-knight to buy up underappreciated small publishers of serious nonfiction, has adopted a change in direction.

26.   Their books were savored by only those who knew the small publishers that printed their works.

27.   This led a small publisher to come to Mastretta and ask if she would be willing to look out for new writers he might publish.

28.   Thomas Nelson, heretofore a religious publisher, has bought Rutledge Hill, a small publisher with an emphasis on Southern history and cooking.

29.   Verso is a small publisher based in New York and London with relatively meager resources for marketing.

30.   An early dissenter was Seven Stories Press, a small publisher located near the World Trade Center that was briefly evacuated.