Word: readership
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...says. Take the cult hit series “Eightball,” by Daniel Clowes. “The idea was to say, ‘Did you like ‘Eightball’ #5? We have #1, too.’ That way, we could build readership.”“We get a lot of people who read about a given graphic novel in the Sunday New York Times or in The Boston Globe,” Davis says, adding that he welcomes a diversity of patrons—including college kids...
...publisher, said his new project hopes to address a “disconnect between what people are interested in reading and what is being published.” “[It aims to] transform old media and update the current journalistic model to be more responsive to its readership,” he added. Miran Pavic ’09, the editor-in-chief of The Voice, agreed that the concept of the project is radically different from existing campus publications and media groups. “It’s going to be student-oriented, modern in layout...
...first-time novelist at age 54, Helen Yglesias made up for lost time by writing five books from 1972 to 1999, garnering a devoted readership. Perhaps her most widely read work, Sweetsir, published in 1981, explored the tortured life of a woman regularly beaten by her husband, until she finally, lethally retaliates. Though her characters spanned a broad spectrum from defiant youth to wry old age, throughout her novels the former editor for The Nation was consistently devoted to her theme: the lives and struggles of women...
...probably incorrect assumption that someone in the Kremlin had those journalists killed because they said (or were on the verge of saying) bad things about Putin. This belief is premised on another false assumption--that Novaya Gazeta poses a threat to the Kremlin. The paper claims a weekly readership of 1 million, but its ardently anti-Putin voice clearly has limited influence. In the recent presidential election, the main liberal candidate got 1.3% of the vote, while Putin's handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, won more than 70%. As for Politkovskaya's death, it may have prompted international outrage...
...uncaring, reckless and ill-informed. We can do better and that threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge before addressing it." The declaration commends government action but makes no specific policy recommendations, such as a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. But, most importantly, given its target readership, it argues that stewardship of the planet is just as Biblical as the other causes that Baptists press in public, and that "when we destroy God's creation, it's similar to ripping pages from the Bible...