Usually means: Moderately successful, neither bestseller nor obscure.
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  1. midlist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. midlist: Wordnik
  3. midlist: Wiktionary
  4. midlist: Dictionary.com
  5. Midlist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. midlist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midlist: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (midlist)

adjective:  (publishing, of a book or author) Unlikely to be more than modestly successful.
adjective:  (publishing, attributively, 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.

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