print publications

Magazine executive John T. Elduff recently paid $2,000 for the trademark rights of the once-renowned weekly Collier's, which went bankrupt in the 1950s. His plans to bring it back to life as a print publication aim at folks who'll recall the name: those in the 50- to 90-year old demographic.

We're addicted to free information, and we only have ourselves to blame. When the Web emerged, newspapers and magazines saw it as a sort of add-on -- a guest bedroom in their fancy mansion, where they could give away their best work in the deluded (and rarely substantiated) knowledge that...