Sentences with phrase «called midlist»

Because a few monolithic, profit - focused companies are controlling the publishing industry, critics claim, we are seeing fewer and fewer fringe books and new authors — and even established authors who sell respectably but not spectacularly (the so - called midlist) are having a tough time staying in print.

Companies like Libboo have recently launched a daily feature based on traffic generated called The Midlist, designed specifically to highlight worthy books that are getting some traction, while not necessarily being top of the list bestsellers.

The second tool is a daily update feature called The Midlist, which sends information to Libboo and InstaFreebie users on which books are generating the most discussion and traffic.

Not exact matches

One agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he certainly wouldn't call Konrath's deal a game changer, but that it does say something interesting about the place of the midlist author in legacy publishing: «It's not necessarily clear that big corporate publishing is well structured to help low midlist authors with rapidly reducing print runs in an environment in which overall print sales are falling week by week.

I'm not talking about getting rich or even being able to quit my day job; I just mean having a decent supplementary income and a reasonably sized, loyal readership — call it low - to - mid «midlist» level.

I call this the «indie midlist» — they're not the indie rockstars, but they're selling a ton of books and making solid bank every month.

Instead, the suggestion was to look at what we might call decent midlist authors, where the sales are decent and steady (or increasing slightly).