Definition of "out-of-print" []

• No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market. (adjective)

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• "The University of Pittsburgh Press, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Library System and the Chicago Digital Distribution Center (CDDC), is making nearly 500 out-of-print Press titles available again for scholars and students around the world."
• "Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, writes, “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”"
• "Every book I've ever written, even the sold-out and long out-of-print titles, can be found at Amazon. com, etc."