3 QUOTES WITH «BACKLIST»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
backlist.
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACKLIST»
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backlist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
backlist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for ...
Backlist. If you're a successful publisher, over the years you've probably devel-
oped one or more core titles that have become signatures of your back- list.
These are the titles that sell best for you over time, year in and year out. These
are the ...
Thomas Woll, Dominique Raccah, 2014
2
Getting It Published, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Scholars and ...
Academic publishers need backlist titles to exist. A book, even an indi≠erent
book, will sometimes be accepted because its editor is convinced the title will sell
year after year, that is, that it will (it's now a verb) backlist. To backlist, in other ...
3
How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to ...
A frontlist bestseller may become a backlist classic that sells for decades; a genre
western may be so extraordinary as to sell outside its traditional market and even
make the bestseller list. A midlist author may at last write a book that hits the ...
4
The Book Publishing Industry
Table 5.10 Number One Juvenile/Young Adult Hardcover Backlist Bestsellers
from 1994 to 2011 Year Category Rank Title Author Units Sold 1994 J/YA
Hardcover Backlist 1 The Pokey Little Puppy's First Christmas Justine Korman
477,200 ...
is replaced by a new list of titles and the old frontlist titles get added to the backlist
. In his condemnation of modern publishing practice, In Cold Type, Leonard
Shatzkin states that “Very little time is devoted to the backlist, the titles published
in ...
Rowland Lorimer, Jillian G. Shoichet, John W. Maxwell, 2005
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The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing: Everything You Need ...
THE. WINNING. COMBINATION: NICHE. PUBLISHING. AND. BACKLIST. BOOKS
. It's a lot easier to be successful in this business if your books center around one
or two themes. This is called niche publishing. You do books on parenting, ...
Marilyn Ross, Sue Collier, 2010
7
Making It in Book Publishing
These catalogs contain their new books and may also include their backlist
books. Backlists are a publisher's books from previous seasons that continue to
sell, and are reprinted as needed. Some publishers maintain a backlist ratio of
five or ...
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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 49 - ...
The value of specialization is evident when considering the significance of
backlist sales. (The backlist consists of all titles still in print but not on the current
year's list.) Although some commercial houses have strong backlist sales, most
trade ...
9
Vault Career Guide to Book Publishing
This wrings additional profits from backlist titles, although profit margins are
generally lower. Backlist A book becomes a “backlist” title six months to a year
after it has been published. The backlist is the publisher's inventory of
copyrighted ...
The virtues of backlist The second area where trade publishers can count on
reliable revenue streams is the backlist. The virtues of the backlist are numerous:
the revenue is relatively predictable and stable from one year to the next; the
major ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACKLIST»
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backlist is used in the context of the following news items.
MIX 03: Mixing it up for digital writing
... an Unknown Soldier World War I writing-commemoration project; a self-publisher of her own backlist; and, like Alderman, a professor at Bath ... «The Bookseller, Jul 15»
The Resurgence of Golden Age Crime
From 'designing for backlist' and deftly on to this year's resurgence of golden age crime fiction, the classic crime genre is proving as popular as ... «The Bookseller, Jul 15»
BOOM! Studios Road to SDCC Announcements #1-5
Studios consistently delivers fun, edgy, and unexpected books,” said Hahn. “Their growing backlist brings a wide range of exceptional talent to ... «Emertainment Monthly, Jul 15»
Scribd makes cuts to romance in its catalog
Described as a one-year agreement, the deal was for "backlist titles from a variety of imprints" to be made available for rental. In contact with ... «The Bookseller, Jun 15»
Excerpt: 'Second Chance Summer' by Jill Shalvis
She's also giving away a book from her backlist (reader's choice) to one commenter here. About the book (courtesy of Grand Central ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
Overdrive Announces the Future of e-Book Lending for Libraries
... improved recommendation algorithm, faster search engine and page loading, users will browse and discover more of the mid-list and backlist ... «Good E-Reader, Jun 15»
EDITORIAL: Proud of CARICOM's stand against EU
Given that the region has complied in the main with the tax exchange information, those seeking to backlist Caribbean countries have the grave ... «Nation News, Jun 15»
Will the newly united Penguin Random House weaken Canadian …
... M&S and release paperbacks with Penguin) and the vast backlist includes many of our best dead writers (W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
Global Publishing Leaders 2015: Oxford University Press
The publisher also succeeded in digitizing backlist content with 2,700 previously published scholarly and professional works now available in ... «Publishers Weekly, Jun 15»
Glenville Pike's books preserve pioneering past of northern Australia
He was an amateur, and often a self-publisher, quite innocent of the editor's instinct: he quotes liberally from his own backlist and repeats ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
