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▪ I. ˈbacklist, back list
[back a. 3 b.]
(A catalogue of) books still available for sale by a publisher or bookseller, but no longer classified by him as ‘current’ or ‘new’. Cf. back number.
1946S. Unwin Truth about Publishing (ed. 4) 14 The most stable firms are usually those which have a strong back list of publications with a continuous and profitable sale. 1947Sat. Rev. Lit. 22 Feb. 5/1 ‘Ferdinand the Bull’..now in its twentieth edition, is still very much on the active backlists. 1957Economist 21 Sept. 939/1 Its sales usually consist of filling small orders for a large number of individual titles, many of them from the backlist. 1959Manchester Guardian 5 Aug. 10/2 Those [publishers]..with well-stocked back lists have been able to go on selling..Bibles, dictionaries, classics.
▸ attrib. or as adj. Of or relating to a backlist; placed on a backlist; = backlisted adj.
1949N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 25/5 The department stores, he said, ‘are interested in quick and frequent turnover, not in accumulated stock or backlist material’. 1977M. Perry et al. Introd. Bk. Publishing (1984) iii. 23 The production controller..must plan..the replenishment of backlist stocks. 1993Bookseller (BNC) 30 Apr. 7 He saw a bookshop that would stock ‘a full range of publishers' books both new and backlist’. 2003Sight & Sound Dec. 15/3 Harvey saw his film go on to be an enduring backlist title and valuable remake property without much in the way of profit filtering back.
▸ With reference to items other than books.
1979Chicago Tribune 21 Oct. e15 The majority of its pop backlist of more than 300 albums has been reduced to a suggested $5.98 list. 1984Guardian (Nexis) 6 Dec. A software backlist that represents five years work in the world's biggest, richest computer games market. 1999R. Altman Film/Genre v. 78 Universal's substantial creature-feature backlist.
▪ II. backlist, v. orig. and chiefly Publishing.
Brit. |ˈbaklɪst|, U.S. |ˈbækˌlɪst|
[‹ backlist n. Compare slightly earlier backlisted adj.]
1. trans. To place (a book or other publication or release) on a backlist.
1979Chicago Tribune 12 Aug. vii. 2/2 Tradition..will keep some books in print although they fail to meet the minimum. Knopf backlists all of Camus, Mann, and Updike. 1982Christian Sci. Monitor (Eastern ed.) 7 Jan. 814 In addition to the highlighted Wildfire title, another one is ‘backlisted’. 2004P. E. Orbanes Game Makers ii. 48 [The game's] disappearance from the Parker Brothers line was notable considering George's custom of backlisting all inventory.
2. intr. Of a book, etc.: to continue to sell well when placed on a backlist.
1980Times 24 Mar. 14/8 Was it the way to build up a backlist? ‘Commercial books do backlist,’ he countered. 1994Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 21 Mar. 33 We will sell 100,000 Callahart units [sc. cartoon strips] this year, and everything's backlisting very nicely. 1999D. J. Enright Play Resumed 178 I'm afraid your book isn't likely to backlist. |