audience vs reception

audience

noun
  • The readership of a book or other written publication. 

  • A following. 

  • An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it. 

  • A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program. 

  • A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. 

  • A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. 

reception

noun
  • Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation. 

  • The act of receiving. 

  • A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone. 

  • The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education. 

  • The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture. 

  • The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals. 

  • The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received. 

  • A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc. 

  • The act of catching a pass. 

How often have the words audience and reception occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )