readership
pronunciation
How to pronounce readership in British English:
UK [ˈri:dəʃɪp]
How to pronounce readership in American English:
US [ˈridərʃɪp]
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- Noun:
- the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.)
Word Origin
- readership (n.)
- 1719, "office of a reader," from reader + -ship. Meaning "total number of readers of a publication" is from 1914.
Example
- 1. Online readership on most major content sites is up .
- 2. Yet turning this readership into revenue is tricky .
- 3. Publishers are more worried about the loss of advertising revenue than readership .
- 4. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries .
- 5. It would be a pity if the book 's dubious title discouraged a wider readership .