"Counting copies is a dopey way to gauge impact"(Reason #6,782)

Remember when I got my free subscription to Men's Journal along with my plane ticket and hotel room for the Citizen's Media confab in San Francisco?

Now I know that back-serving issues on a new subscription is a trick as old as time. But today I got the July, June and May issues rubber-banded together.

A subscription I didn't even really want, and now three full issues at one time. And I'm counted as paid circ.

The thudding sound is three issues of MJ hitting my wastebasket.

Hedline quote: Ed Wasserman