How to Use backlist in a Sentence

backlist

noun

• With the demise of Borders and the decline of Barnes & Noble, backlist—i.e.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 10 May 2017
• Drop by booth 2016 to check out all our new frontlist titles, as well as key backlist.
  — National Geographic, 7 May 2019
• There will be 24 authors, plus our employees in the pool —along with the top three backlist earners.
  — Sara Bliss, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Third-party sellers were in the buy box for more than 10 percent of the backlist titles Lubart has reviewed.
  — Ángel González, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• Newcomers to his daunting backlist may need a bit of guidance.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• 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.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 24 Nov. 2018
• A decade earlier, backlist titles comprised around half of all sales.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• 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.
  — Erin Quinn-Kong, Town & Country, 24 Mar. 2017
• That same issue led to fierce economic backlist in 2016 in North Carolina.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2022
• TikTokers are talking about her current novels as well as those on her backlist.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• Many backlist and frontlist titles were rendered unsalvageable due to the water.
  — Adrienne Gibbs, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• The imprint typically publishers 40-50 titles per year and has a backlist in the hundreds.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• 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.
  — Michael Hingston, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
• Readers devoured the free novels — and started buying her entire backlist.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• At stake is whether traditional publishers own the rights to the hundreds of thousands of backlist titles under contract prior to 1990.
  — M.j. Rose, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2002
• And, in an age when most readers don’t care who published a book or, for that matter, when it was published, an extensive backlist is increasingly valuable.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• Acquiring a publisher for its backlist alone, regardless of what happens to it or its imprints, is increasingly valuable in and of itself.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• The spike was significant enough that Ms. Angel hesitates to ascribe it to pandemic backlist reading.
  — Kate Dwyer, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• Though there is growing consensus across the book industry about the need to diversify its offerings, including titles from its backlists, there have been moments of controversy about the best way to go about it.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• These concerns dovetail with another major trend in the book industry, an increasingly heavy reliance on two cash cows: bestsellers and backlist titles.
  — Chad W. Post, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• With many new books postponed, backlist sales boomed; this, too, created a printing problem, with publishers having to balance reprints with upcoming releases.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024