readerdom

The realm, sphere, influence, or body of readers; readers collectively; readership.

Noun

  1. The realm, sphere, influence, or body of readers; readers collectively; readership.
    • In the name of outraged readerdom I protest against such betrayal. - 1903, Robert Blatchford, A book about books:
    • They come, I have found, separately and in substantial chunks. Your happy ending is obviously a sop to the tired business man of readerdom who prefers to do his thinking in the office. - 1915, Lippincott's monthly...
    • "[…] He clashes with readerdom because he is his own ideal reader and those other readers are so very often mere lip- moving ghosts and amnesiacs” […] - 2007, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Imagining Nabokov:

Origin

From reader + -dom.