http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/bees/
"For every person that got referred to a site via Reader, there were undoubtedly thousands more reading quietly on a daily basis that you would simply never see or hear from.
Again, while perhaps not directly monetizable, I'd imagine those readers are important in other ways. Maybe they're other bloggers who read everything and choose to link to your site because they read a post of yours in Reader. Or maybe they're one of those aforementioned "bees" that read your content in Reader and chose to then put it on Twitter, or Facebook, or Reddit, or Hacker News, or all of them.
I can't help but get the feeling that the ramifications of Google killing off Reader are going to be far more wide-reaching than they may appear at first glance."
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