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OK, so "backlist" means a book that has been out awhile but still sells enough copies to keep it in print.
Midlist means an average book, average author.
Frontlist means major campaign and ad push by publisher
Now you have terms like: run-away-best-seller--best-seller--breakout-best-seller.
So, a midlist best seller is an average book, average campaign, that accomplished better than average sales.
A frontlist best-seller is one that got preferential treatment and lived up to expectations. It's possibly on its way to becoming a best-seller.
A break-out best seller is perhaps a midlist that gained ground very fast and is approaching frontlist best-seller status.
A best-seller is usually national, and high in achievement sales, which garners major reviews in the trades and major newspapers that professionally rate books like the NYT.
A run-away-best-seller is popular world-wide and is the top of the chain--such as the Potter series books. Or is a run-away the same think as a break-out?
Am I close on any of this?
From this list, I guess I was just a midlist that went to backlist. Damn, these ranks are like being in the military, but I feel that they are extremely important terms in the pub world. I would humbly love to meet a front-lister, and proclaim "I am not wooooorthy?"
Where would a vanity author fit here?
Midlist means an average book, average author.
Frontlist means major campaign and ad push by publisher
Now you have terms like: run-away-best-seller--best-seller--breakout-best-seller.
So, a midlist best seller is an average book, average campaign, that accomplished better than average sales.
A frontlist best-seller is one that got preferential treatment and lived up to expectations. It's possibly on its way to becoming a best-seller.
A break-out best seller is perhaps a midlist that gained ground very fast and is approaching frontlist best-seller status.
A best-seller is usually national, and high in achievement sales, which garners major reviews in the trades and major newspapers that professionally rate books like the NYT.
A run-away-best-seller is popular world-wide and is the top of the chain--such as the Potter series books. Or is a run-away the same think as a break-out?
Am I close on any of this?
From this list, I guess I was just a midlist that went to backlist. Damn, these ranks are like being in the military, but I feel that they are extremely important terms in the pub world. I would humbly love to meet a front-lister, and proclaim "I am not wooooorthy?"
Where would a vanity author fit here?