out of print
Speech parts
1. out of print - Adjective
2. out of print - Phrase
3. out of print - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
(of books) no longer offered for sale by a publisher
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out-of-print
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It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.