Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The portion of a publisher's list of new or current titles made up of books expected to have less popular appeal than the frontlist.
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- adjective publishing, of a book or author Unlikely to be more than
modestly successful
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Examples
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And the point is: everyone does say the midlist is dying.
msagara: On agents, writers, and yes, this is about that post. msagara 2009
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For that reason, presumably, and not just because she's black, one of the most accessibly challenging contemporary authors I've encountered will remain midlist at best.
SeeLight: 2007
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For that reason, presumably, and not just because she's black, one of the most accessibly challenging contemporary authors I've encountered will remain midlist at best.
Leaving Atlanta 2007
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Exceptions abound -- bestsellers, titles where publishers paid for placement, &c. -- but the jump to back - or midlist is now a six week cycle.
Sell-by dates Roger Sutton 2006
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(link) And the point is: everyone does say the midlist is dying.
msagara: On agents, writers, and yes, this is about that post. msagara 2009
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The most obvious thing is that the so-called midlist book, the book that isn't going to be a bestseller, isn't being published to the degree that it was, say, in the 1960s, where there was a conscious effort to represent diverse views, races and so forth.
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The most obvious thing is that the so-called midlist book, the book that isn't going to be a bestseller, isn't being published to the degree that it was, say, in the 1960s, where there was a conscious effort to represent diverse views, races and so forth.
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The most obvious thing is that the so-called midlist book, the book that isn't going to be a bestseller, isn't being published to the degree that it was, say, in the 1960s, where there was a conscious effort to represent diverse views, races and so forth.
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The most obvious thing is that the so-called midlist book, the book that isn't going to be a bestseller, isn't being published to the degree that it was, say, in the 1960s, where there was a conscious effort to represent diverse views, races and so forth.
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The most obvious thing is that the so-called midlist book, the book that isn't going to be a bestseller, isn't being published to the degree that it was, say, in the 1960s, where there was a conscious effort to represent diverse views, races and so forth.
reesetee commented on the word midlist
In bookselling, a list of books that have had reliable sales but are not the key titles on the publisher's or bookseller's list. See frontlist and backlist.
October 23, 2007