"affluent reader" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a reader who is wealthy or has a high social status. Example: The magazine was aimed at affluent readers and featured articles on luxury travel and high-end products.
And with such huge circulations, the magazines have lots of affluent readers.
Finally, I wondered about the built-in assumptions of relatively affluent readers like Hozeking in Naperville, Ill.
His sights are on the kinds of advertisers and affluent readers drawn to The Times.
The more affluent readers of Harper's Bazaar, O, The Oprah Magazine and Town & Country will see higher-priced items.
Deeply sympathetic as he was to the poor, his argument, pitched to more affluent readers, was couched in a tone of calm reason.
"You need capital investment and sustained ad revenue" that target "more affluent readers" – which usually means that publications end up catering to mostly white gay male readers.
(see pages 2-3)." And there is the kind of advertisement that scares off media planners looking for affluent readers -- An ad for a "New Revolutionary European Baldness Treatment".
Punching back, The Times last week began an advertising campaign in trade publications and their Web sites, reminding ad buyers that it reaches a far larger audience in the New York market than the Journal — even among business people and affluent readers.
OK! and US Weekly, the newest A.M.I. magazine, have the youngest and most affluent readers, most of whom are in their late thirties and forties and gravitate toward Hollywood gossip.
When the dust cleared last year, Architectural Digest was one of a handful of high-end survivors, that is, national shelter titles with affluent readers publishing more than six issues a year, along with Elle Décor, Dwell, House Beautiful and Veranda, each with a distinct ethos and readership (recessions are nothing if not clarifying) and a markedly different financial back story.
