How to Use backlist in a Sentence

backlist

noun

• Drop by booth 2016 to check out all our new frontlist titles, as well as key backlist.
  — National Geographic, 7 May 2019
• Newcomers to his daunting backlist may need a bit of guidance.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• And the greater the number of books that come out and remain in print, the longer the publisher’s backlist.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• And avant-garde publishing, the best like the worst, is almost wholly an affair of backlists.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• This impressive backlist reminds us, yet again, how often great books emerge from small presses.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• There will be 24 authors, plus our employees in the pool —along with the top three backlist earners.
  — Sara Bliss, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• TikTokers are talking about her current novels as well as those on her backlist.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
• To some in Hollywood, today’s rhetoric reflects a throwback to the epoch of the backlist decades ago.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
• Many backlist and frontlist titles were rendered unsalvageable due to the water.
  — Adrienne Gibbs, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Developing a backlist is one of the ways publishers can afford to take gambles on big advances.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• Readers devoured the free novels — and started buying her entire backlist.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Her publisher, Knopf, is also rereleasing her backlist with brand new covers.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• My publisher for non-Dilbert books has canceled my upcoming book and the entire backlist.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But in time, the meaning of backlist was expanded to include any book for which the publisher would continue to accept orders, even if this required a new print run.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• That same issue led to fierce economic backlist in 2016 in North Carolina.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2022
• Note, however, that not all old books are backlist titles; those which, for lack of consumer demand or other reasons, go out-of-print are not a part of a publisher’s backlist.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• For backlist titles, it is generally assumed that any major initial investment costs have already been recouped (or written off).
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• 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 imprint typically publishers 40-50 titles per year and has a backlist in the hundreds.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• This entry provides an overview of the backlist and frontlist, the importance of effective list building, and the impact of technology on backlists and frontlists.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• How workable his predictions will turn out to be for the publishing industry remains to be seen, but there is no question that backlist and frontlist will remain important concepts to book publishers for many years to come.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Long a smaller concern of publishers, interest in backlists accelerated as Amazon and social media scrambled the way books are sold and discovered.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
• That came into the dress angle because your typical bridal shop or prom dress store is very small in size, not a lot of variety, only has one size of every dress, and there’s no backlist for the clients that are coming in, whether there are two or 20.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026