One trend that is relevant to online scientific publishing is the relative robustness of the general readership for printed newspapers.While I am not aware of any data surveying the preference of scientists for online journal articles versus their printed counterparts, the prevalence of readership for printed newspapers is a tightly monitored metrics.Today’sWall Street Journal(WSJ) continues yet another article describing the steady and seemingly inexorable erosion in print readership.Thus theWSJstated that “average weekday circulation at 534 daily newspapers fell 3.6% for the six months ended March 31, compared with the year-earlier period.”Some notable declines included theNew York Times(-3.85%),the Washington Post(-3.57%), andthe Chicago Tribune(-4.44%).My informal conversations with scientific colleagues suggest that online journal readership has also increasingly supplanted print readership.