readerbase

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noun

The established group of readers for a particular publication, etc.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounreaderbase (plural readerbases)

plural readerbases

  1. rareThe established group of readers for a particular publication, etc.

    Know your readerbase. Who reads your comic?

    2013, Brad Guigar, The Webcomics Handbook: The Cartoonist’s Guide to Working in the Digital Age, Philadelphia, Pa.: Greystone Inn Comics, →ISBN, page 190
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    With such adornments as 2500 publications, about 50 million books sold over the year and about the same number of readerbase, it is a matter of no surprise that BPB titles are perscribed^([sic]) as standard courseware at most of the leading schools, institutes and universities in India.

    1993, BPB Publications, “Meet Asia’s Largest Largest Publisher of Computer & Electronic Books”, in Tom Duncan, Electronics for Today and Tomorrow, New Delhi: BPB Publications, →ISBN

    And it followed us as our readerbase grew and changed until I sat back and was just amazed that the discussions were actually just as important, if not more so, as the words I was writing.

    2002 January, Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, “Foreword”, in chromatic, Brian Aker, Dave Krieger, Running Weblogs with Slash (Creating a Web Community), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page x

    First, we’d like to thank you for taking the time to answer some questions and opening yourself up to the scrutiny of our highly opinionated readerbase.

    2015 August, Grumpy Oi! [pseudonym], “Bo Baroni of Boot Party”, in Smeared in Ink, volume 1, Dallas, Tex.: Crowd Control Media, page 21

    I’ll bet a certain subset of the readerbase was thrilled to get so much quality Inaba content, too.

    2018 October, Molly Lee, “Translator’s Column”, in Sadanatsu Anda, translated by Molly Lee, edited by Adam Fogle, Kokoro Connect, volume 2 (Kizu Random), J-Novel Club

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