Rick Warren, Reader's Digest Part Ways On Project
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Posted: 9:32 PM Nov 5, 2009
Rick Warren, Reader's Digest Part Ways On Project
Joint venture between Warren and Reader's Digest crumbles
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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - A joint publishing venture between
influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has
collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great
fanfare.

The multimedia project, called the Purpose Driven Connection, will continue in a different form but be operated solely by Warren's Saddleback Church starting next spring.

Warren says the quarterly print magazine will cease publication in mid-November and its content will migrate to a free, expanded Web site. He cited lagging subscriptions.

In August, Reader's Digest Association Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, facing dropping print subscriptions and looming debt.

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