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With Skiff, Hearst plans to enter the e-reader market and give the online P-I another way to compete with the Seattle Times.

Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.

The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.

Estimates put the sale price at $30-40 million, about a $200 million loss from the 1998 purchase price. And the Seattle company apparently has to carry unfunded pension liabilities as part of the deal...

P-I presses stop; Times troubles roll on

The print P-I's end is near. Why no call from Hearst?

Advertising in February was down 45% over the previous year, and the Times' pension plan has become underfunded, according to a memo to the staff.

E-mail to staff strikes an urgent note, saying the paper faces a liquidity crisis and "cannot afford to delay."