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Nov 4, 2009 4:24 pm US/Pacific

Rick Warren, Reader's Digest Part Ways On Project

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, church officials said Wednesday.

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