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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- English list English midlist From mid- + list.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a book or author) Unlikely to be more than modestly successful.
He scoffs at the lesser-known, midlist and emerging authors […].
2007 June 4, Celia Mcgee, “A Way to Give Authors a Lucrative Second Platform”, in New York Times:
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(attributive, not-comparable, of books being planned) Expected to achieve sales performance that blends frontlist performance with backlist performance, being neither a bestseller when new nor a perennial backlist performer but strong enough in each of those categories to be successful overall.
The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
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mid-tier · A-list · Z-list · backlist · middling · frontlist · mid-level · B-list · C-list