"Driven by marketing and delivery costs and pressure from advertisers, many [US] papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them."

Peter Preston on how Eros card could be a step towards UK newspaper publishers finally getting a better understanding of who reads their newspapers. The current "two-stage distribution system [is] notably short on useful data".

Tom Coates is not happy with PR people who send him press releases because of his blog, PlasticBag.org: "It really pisses me off that press people consider me an outlet to push their marketing messages."