backlist
back·list [ ˈbak-ˌlist]
[ˈbak-ˌlist]
: a list of books kept in print as distinguished from books newly published
Recent Examples on the Web
//At this point, Persephone’s backlist runs to more than 130 titles, each of which is available at the store on Lamb’s Conduit Street — and each arranged, to my delight, in numerical order.
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Michael Hingston, Houston Chronicle, "London’s bookstores punctuate the city," 20 Sep. 2019
//At this point, Persephone’s backlist runs to more than 130 titles, each of which is available at the store on Lamb’s Conduit Street — and each arranged, to my delight, in numerical order.
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Michael Hingston, Washington Post, "In London, it’s easy to find a bookshop that floats your boat. (Really. One is on a barge.)," 13 Sep. 2019
//Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead‘s latest novel The Nickel Boys, about an abusive Jim Crow-era reform school, joins a backlist of books that point to urgent questions about identity, class and history.
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Annabel Gutterman, Time, "How Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Colson Whitehead Finds Inspiration for His Books," 27 June 2019
//Drop by booth 2016 to check out all our new frontlist titles, as well as key backlist.
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National Geographic, "Show dates for Nat Geo Books," 7 May 2019
//Small Beer Press will be marking off 50 to 70 percent on their backlist titles, with free media mail rate shipping anywhere in the US.
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Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "The best Black Friday deals for readers," 24 Nov. 2018
//They'll be expected to do a book tour with plenty of signing events, and have hefty backlist sales—meaning copies will need to move long after the initial buzz wears off.
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Erin Quinn-kong, Town & Country, "Can the Obamas Actually Earn Back Their Record-Setting Book Advance?," 24 Mar. 2017
//Third-party sellers were in the buy box for more than 10 percent of the backlist titles Lubart has reviewed.
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Ángel González, The Seattle Times, "Amazon gives book resellers new prominence, and publishers aren’t happy," 15 June 2017
//With the demise of Borders and the decline of Barnes & Noble, backlist—i.e.
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Alex Shephard, New Republic, "Amazon Steps Up Its Battle With the Book Industry," 10 May 2017
First Known Use of backlist
1946, in the meaning defined above
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