
In newspaper or magazine publishing, and in direct mail, this phrase is used to describe the 'secondary' reader beyond the original subscriber or addressee.
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Additional readership acquired as executives forward particularly interesting mail to their associates. Business catalog mailers seek to harness this effect by printing a group of germane titles on the cover as a suggested routing for such pass-along readership.
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