Midlist

/mɪdlɪst/

[noun]

Midlist

[NOUN]

titles that are not bestsellers but are still popular enough to warrant publication and distribution

Examples

1. And so maintaining a really strong midlist was a very important part of the business.

2. Then you will have something in the middle called the midlist in books.

3. And Tom Doherty could publish a few midlist western books, and he could get those into those truck stops, and his bulk of his audience was these truckers who would buy them.

4. A midlist book is a book that makes money for the publisher, pays for itself, but doesn't make so much that it's really funding anything else.