You might want to take a look at: MR1436920 (98a:18007) Reviewed
Baues, Hans-Joachim(D-MPI); Jibladze, Mamuka(D-MPI); Tonks, Andy(D-MPI)
Cohomology of monoids in monoidal categories. Operads: Proceedings of Renaissance Conferences (Hartford, CT/Luminy, 1995), 137–165,
Contemp. Math., 202, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1997. Which I think makes the same observation.