readership

noun read·er·ship \ ˈrē-dər-ˌship \

|Updated on: 20 Aug 2018

Examples: readership in a Sentence

Definition of readership

1 a : the office or position of a reader

b : the quality or state of being a reader

2 : the mass or a particular group of readers

a magazine's readership

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Examples of readership in a Sentence

She holds a readership in chemistry.

Recent Examples of readership from the Web

Since launching in 2014, ELi’s readership has increased more than 38-fold, with close to 20,000 monthly visitors to its website and 2,000 subscribers to its email newsletter.

— christa case bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, "As local news outlets struggle to survive, citizen-led efforts are stepping up," 10 July 2018
Publishers say the rules are needed because a growing share readership comes through social media and aggregators, undercutting publishers’ efforts to attract subscribers.

— sam schechner, WSJ, "Tech Companies Win Reprieve as EU Parliament Delays Copyright Law," 5 July 2018
Over the decades the majority of us in the readership area of The Aegis and The Record have come to appreciate the hard work and dedication that goes in to each of our local Independence Day celebrations.

— The Aegis, "Our Independence [Editorial]," 29 June 2018
Poets of the mid-20th century, like Adrienne Rich or Amiri Baraka, critically examine and revolutionize ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, and race, but their ideas are expressed in language that’s accessible to a broad readership.

— walt hunter, The Atlantic, "Remembering Donald Hall, a Poet of Love and Loss," 27 June 2018
Roth also helped bring a wider readership to the acclaimed Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld.

— hillel italie, chicagotribune.com, "Philip Roth, prize-winning author of 'Portnoy's Complaint' and 'American Pastoral,' dies at 85," 22 May 2018
The paths these works have taken have fit within Transit’s original mission: The books initially fell under the radar, in the U.S. at the least, only to gather a receptive readership after finding a home with Transit.

— brandon yu, San Francisco Chronicle, "Bay Area and beyond: Oakland publisher Transit Books brings foreign voices to U.S.," 1 Feb. 2018
All the curious gawkers — women like me — brought a new kind of readership.

— lydia kiesling, The Cut, "The Evolution of a Mormon Mommy Blogger," 27 June 2018
Roth also helped bring a wider readership to the acclaimed Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld.

— hillel italie, chicagotribune.com, "Philip Roth, prize-winning author of 'Portnoy's Complaint' and 'American Pastoral,' dies at 85," 22 May 2018

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