These big books also presuppose a readership with a lot of time on its hands.
One, produced in San Francisco, sought a mainstream readership with its breezy architecture and design coverage.
Well, who else but Green had a readership with a 40-year time horizon?
It arrived at a figure by combining the publication's print readership with a day's worth of its Web site traffic.
I felt I was taking a huge risk as it was, presenting a largely male readership with these weirdly re-gendered people.
And Persephone Books still delights a faithful readership with rediscovered work by mid-century women writers, from Winifred Holtby to Irène Némirovsky.
Magazine industry experts say that's notable because its editors are catering to a readership with a narrow age range that outgrows the magazine every few years.
I know of no readership surveys of the period, nor of any way to reconstruct the composition of the readership with certainty.
One of the many pleasures of being editor is having had the opportunity to interact with that readership: with you, the readers.
He enjoys a huge readership, with seven books, including his meditation on the new technologies, "The Sun, the Genome and the Internet".
The NRS figures show that the Daily Mail had the biggest website in terms of readership, with 6.8 million people viewing Mail Online each month.
