out of print

1. 1.

   (of books) no longer offered for sale by a publisher

   “that edition is out of print”

   Similardiscontinued

Questions about out of print

What does out of print mean?

out of print means "(of books) no longer offered for sale by a publisher".

Is out of print a common word?

out of print is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.