SWITCHING TO ANOTHER BUSINESS MODEL THEY DON'T GET:

Christian Science Monitor to End Print Edition (Howard Kurtz, 10/28/08, Washington Post)

The money-losing paper announced today that it will stop publishing next April, except for a weekly edition, and shift entirely to the Internet. [...]

The Web site is drawing 1.5 million unique visitors a month, which isn't bad, but Yemma says he must boost that if the brand is to survive. "There's no magic bullet," he says. "You just have to do high-quality journalism and post constantly."

We used to post their stuff more often, but their lawyers contacted us and insisted that we never use more than two paragraphs. They're the only folks ever to do so. Seems self-defeating to discourage circulation of your stuff on the Internet.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 28, 2008 6:19 PM