We don't believe in ghosts, so writing ghost literature for a modern readership presents particular challenges.
I'd seen him in the film Mrs Brown and I thought that if he stood up and read this stuff - 'The Two Mice', for example: 'Still, being soothed so sweetly, she got up / And went to table where again they sat, / But hardly had they time to drink one cup / When in comes Hunter Gib, our jolly cat' - he has enough insinuation and intelligence to help bring it within reach of a modern readership.
But still the statistics make for interesting reading, and even at almost 43%, the modern comic readership gender split is a far cry from Lynx's stereotype of 2005.
And unlike when the Spectator saw its readership decline, the modern media landscape ― with its easy points of access and low bars for entry ― makes it harder today to punish perceived bad actors.
While this move cost "The New York Times" readership among its more conservative, business-oriented, upper-class readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years and slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under its new later owner/publisher's philosophies, Adolph Ochs of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
According to Berger, it was the first modern comic to attract a large female readership.
And if you ever find yourself getting ground up in the gears of "modern consumerism," their contributors -- and their readership -- can be your saving grace.
Now the designer and writer Matt Steel is setting out to address Walden's declining readership, with a new edition of the public domain text that adapts Thoreau's 19th-century language for modern readers.
There can be no mistaking what this is: yet another attempt to keep Hefner's once famed publication from entirely losing its relevance in modern society among its most desired class of readership of young well-off men.
Hopefully, its seductive interweaving of a modern life and an ancient one will encourage a wider readership of this most appealing of Latin writers, even if only in translation.
Only in Hellenistic Greece, in Rome, and in China, where there were essentially nontheocratic societies, does there seem to have been any publishing in the modern sense i.e., a copying industry supplying a lay readership.
