backlist
Publisher's enduring inventory
A publisher's backlist comprises titles that were released in previous seasons but remain in print and available for sale, as opposed to the frontlist of new releases.
Backlist books often provide steady, reliable income for publishers, sometimes outselling newer titles.
As a verb, to backlist a title is to keep it available rather than letting it go out of print.
Her debut novel became a backlist staple, selling thousands of copies each year.
Ordered list of items
- titlesNames of creative works
- reprintsSubsequent publication runs
- editionsVersions of publications
- authorsCreators of written works
royalties · imprints · paperback · hardcover · monographs · fiction · nonfiction · genres
Body of written works
- novelsExtended prose fiction
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- AustenLiterary family name
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
Tolstoy · Hemingway · Orwell · Fitzgerald · Dostoevsky · Woolf · Hugo · Melville
catalog
Ordered list of items
authors · royalties · imprints · paperback · hardcover · monographs · fiction · nonfiction · genres · rights
literature
Body of written works
- novelsExtended prose fiction
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- AustenLiterary family name
Dickens · Tolstoy · Hemingway · Orwell · Fitzgerald · Dostoevsky · Woolf · Hugo · Melville · Twain
overstock
Surplus goods beyond demand
surplus · markdown · bargain · warehouse · closeout · remaindered · out-of-print · pulped · returns · write-off
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- book listsbook lists, reading lists, bestsellers, must-reads, book picks
- book termsfolio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, page
- book worlddystopian fiction, young adult fiction, fantasy novels, graphic novels, memoir