• In 1950, its circulation stood close to eight and a half million, an astonishing command of the reading public, but had since fallen to around six million.

    NEWYORKER: Hack Work

  • However, those who look for larger ideas will be rewarded with an important insight which may bring new admirers to Ruskin's works, so long neglected by the reading public.

    ECONOMIST: Art history

  • Of course, whether you publish yourself or through the traditional channels, selling enough to become a millionaire is still dependent on something completely outside of your control the often random taste of the reading public.

    FORBES: Who Wants To Be A (Kindle) Millionaire?

  • The book was, obviously, meant to be humorous, and was embraced by the reading public, to the surprise of Rousselot and his publisher: it had to be reprinted after three months, and within a year more than fifteen thousand copies had been sold.

    NEWYORKER: ?lvaro Rousselot��s Journey

  • These guys seemed to know everything, the whole vo-cabulary of worldly gain and progress, so I paid extra attention during their memoir-brainstorming sessions, listened closely to their debates over how much the reading public did or did not need to know about their tortured childhoods in order to understand why they needed to make so much money in the manner in which they made it.

    NPR: Chapter 1

  • This brought him to the immediate attention of the literary establishment and the Russian reading public, as well, inevitably, as the tsar's secret police.

    ECONOMIST: Russian writers

  • Then peers turn to the second reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Then it's back to government legislation, with the third reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill - the startlingly low-key measure to cut the cost of public-sector pensions.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • "I'm seeing how in the minds of the Spanish-reading public in California that they were basically looking at one war with two fronts, one against the Confederacy in the east and the other against the French in the south, " Hayes-Bautista said in an interview with CNN.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Obviously, in the past these costs created significant barrier to entry and when they disappear, the new-reading public is a beneficiary as it has access to many more high-value minds and viewpoints than ever before.

    FORBES: Does McClatchy Ever Wish It Was the Target in the Knight Ridder Deal?

  • On Wednesday, after a 10-month trial program, JSTOR opened its archives to free reading by the public.

    WSJ: Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist

  • Although the Richard III Society has been around since the 1920s, it was Tey's 1951 novel that brought their ideas to a more general reading public - on the Richard III Society website, they dedicate a special section to Tey's novel.

    BBC: King Richard III

  • If you could go back to the Dixon, Illinois, of 1922, you'd find a boy of 11, reading adventure stories at the public library or running with his brother, Neil, along Rock River, and coming home to a little house on Hennepin Avenue.

    CNN: President Bush: 'Our whole nation grieves'

  • Mr Reading believes the failure on public sector pay speaks to a general failure to focus on the right things in designing the deficit strategy.

    BBC: Hard times for Mr Osborne

  • Like the humble starfish that preserves entire marine ecosystems by eating mussels, the American public library is the keystone species in the ecosystem of reading.

    FORBES: Why Public Libraries Matter: And How They Can Do More

  • The Grade 2 listed Athenaeum was built in the 1850s with public subscriptions on the site of a former mansion where Llanelli Reading Society had been holding meetings for more than half a century.

    BBC: Heritage element in Llanelli library refurbishment work

  • In 1998, the percent of fourth-grade students in the highest-poverty public schools who met or exceeded the NAEP Basic level in reading was about half the national rate, and progress in reading overall is only back to 1998 and 1990 levels.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on reading-for-pleasure vs. forced-reading in the context of schooling and public education.

    FORBES: Curiosity and Reading

  • "This is reading what people put into the public domain, " Ashcroft said.

    CNN: Key Republican blasts new FBI guidelines

  • Erdogan, who was jailed in the 1990s for reading a poem about Islam in public, sparred with military commanders during his first years in office.

    CNN: Turkish court issues sentences in coup-plot case

  • Brand brings this part of the show to a climax by reading out posts from The Times website which highlight the absurdity of some of the public reaction.

    BBC: Brand addicted to Sachs in new show

  • The government has invoked the public safety exception, a designation that allows investigators to question the teen without reading him his Miranda rights and without a lawyer present, another Justice Department official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNN.

    CNN: Official: Boston bombing suspect 'sedated'

  • The reading room concept originally came from the New York Public Library, during the Depression.

    FORBES: HSBC's Social Media Plan Succeeds At Ground Level

  • His book is both direct and stylish, flowing with the rhythms and images natural to his Bible-reading public.

    ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea

  • Without public libraries to promote the culture of reading and build communities of interconnected readers, publishers would face a diminished market for their titles.

    FORBES: Why Public Libraries Matter: And How They Can Do More

  • U.S. officials said an elite interrogation team would question the Massachusetts college student without reading him his Miranda rights, something that is allowed on a limited basis when the public may be in immediate danger, such as instances in which bombs are planted and ready to go off.

    NPR: Boston Bomb Suspect Hospitalized Under Heavy Guard

  • Finally, the successful inventors had always maintained clear ties to sources of scientific knowledge in the public domain, by collaborating with university scientists, reading scientific publications, and so on.

    FORBES: Big Firm Innovators: What Large Companies Can Do to Be Just as Innovative as Small Entrepreneurial Ones

  • Wind chill is vitally important information for the public, says Ross Reynolds, senior teaching fellow at Reading University's meteorology department.

    BBC: Who, What, Why: What is wind chill factor?

  • Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).

    FORBES: Schoola Pioneers Groupon Fundraising For Schools

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