I think a reason that publishers like this may be interested in publishing print-only newspapers, magazines, and books isn't just the "reading on screens is bad

I think a reason that publishers like this may be interested in publishing print-only newspapers, magazines, and books isn't just the "reading on screens is bad for you" idea (of questionable validity) but simple economics. It's trivial to block ads and paywalls for online newspapers and magazines - great for the reader, but obviously not so much for the publisher. Likewise ebooks are generally stripped of their DRM and added to one of the "shadow libraries" accessible to the web. Of course you can say a print publication can be scanned and likewise distributed, but such scans are cumbersome and less attractive to "pirates" than things already in digital form.