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Reader-centred concepts

Opening the Book has introduced a number of key concepts as the reader-centred approach has been developed.  Click on the links in the list  to explore some of them.

  • Putting the reader first
  • Definition of quality
  • Opening up reading choices
  • Surprise books
  • Why promote?
  • Sell the sizzle not the sausage
  • There's a reader for every book
  • Using readers as a resource
  • Making the reader visible
  • Reader-to-reader
  • Respecting other people's reading experience
  • Differentiating reading audiences
  • The dominant borrower
  • How readers choose
  • Less is more
  • The 5-min borrower
  • Differentiate but don't alienate
  • The Reader's Charter
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