Robin Wasserman

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

American Novelist

Irvine Welsh

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

Scottish Novelist

Gail Simone

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

American Writer

Anne McCaffrey

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

American Author

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Jonah Peretti

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

American Businessman

Patrick deWitt

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

Canadian Novelist

Edith Pearlman

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

Dan Simmons

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Mary H.K. Choi

There's a really generous readership with YA.

South Korean Author

Use 'readership' to talk about people who read a specific type of publication regularly.

Publication Specific

Understanding 'readership' helps publishers target content and advertisements to their audience.

Market Insight

'Readership' implies more than numbers; it also involves reader loyalty and engagement.

Not Just Quantity

In the academic context, 'readership' refers to a faculty member's job of teaching and researching.

Academic Position

A readership at a university is a prestigious position and often indicates expertise in a subject.

Prestige

The term 'readership' for an academic role is mainly used in the UK, not as common elsewhere.

UK Specific

 more than 95 percent of the news readership is on domestic news sites. It's one of these rare cases where the U.S. is actually slightly better than, because we actually like reading your media, rather than vice versa. So all of this starts leading me to think that we're in a state that I refer to

Ethan Zuckerman: How to...

 word that will set off something in my imagination because he's familiar I guess with the way my mind works but that also will set off reflexes in the imagination of the readership you know this is really what it's all about

Telling the Story: 125...

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