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There may be bidders for Newsweek who haven't stepped forward, but Bob Guccione Jr. isn't one of them. Though he loves print, he says the newsweekly category is "in the late autumn of its life cycle."

Stephen Colbert generated lots of buzz for Newsweek. Sales, not so much. The June 15 issue about the Iraq War, which the Colbert Report host guest-edited, sold about 75,000 copies on newsstands, according to Newsweek's preliminary estimate. That's above the title's year-to-date average of 66,600,...