Yet once the novel was published reader reaction was immediate.

Sometimes a word in headlines becomes so incendiary that it's hard to keep the reader reaction to it in proportion.

I'll follow up with reader reaction to this in a future column.

Mr. Barry said he was surprised by the reader reaction.

"None of us refers to the words with more freedom, so when we read him the most common reader reaction is amazement, bewilderment."

After the adventure, Popeye left the strip, but due to reader reaction, he was quickly brought back.

A follow-up telephone survey will seek reader reaction to the test magazine.

Those factors, plus reader reaction, could alter what the Post becomes.

She also knows that reader reaction can't be predicted.

In simpler ways, libraries may deliberately remove certain reference works from their regular places on the shelves and then monitor reader reactions.