Category Archives: DAS News
How Arkansas Catholic Newspaper Digitized its Newspaper Archive
It’s the story no newspaper wants to write. Publishers never want to have to inform readers that the newspaper’s archive is gone. It could have been the story for the Arkansas Catholic newspaper and its 91 year old bound volume … Continue reading
Editor & Publisher Reports on Our Program Helping Publishers Monetize their Archives
Editor & Publisher did a great job telling readers about Discover America’s Story which helps publishers monetize their archives. The article in the April issue of Editor & Publisher explains how publishers can sell sponsorships to generate a revenue stream … Continue reading
How Newspapers Successfully Generate Money to Digitize Archives
When a Virginia community newspaper wanted to digitize its 68 year bound volume archive, it went to the community, asked for help and people started sending checks. It’s not an anomaly. People, organizations and businesses are eager to be engaged and … Continue reading
Discover America’s Story is about making money.
In addition to creating the first online newspaper archive repository dedicated to small town and community American newspapers, Discover America’s Story is about showing newspaper publishers that their archive content has significant value and, through its digitization, can generate revenue. … Continue reading
Sponsorships deliver newspaper revenue.
You see it at nearly every sporting or entertainment event you attend – corporate sponsorships are everywhere and for good reason. They work – generating significant dollars for organizations that are aware that businesses tend to have money set aside … Continue reading
A Proven Way to Monetize Your Bound Volume Archive
Nothing good is happening today to bound volume archives stashed in a storage room or packed away in a basement. They generally just sit there – fragile and continuing to deteriorate. Additionally, they’re virtually impossible for the community to search … Continue reading
The Must-Try New Revenue Generator
Small market and community newspaper publishers have a fresh new revenue generator at their disposal – and it’s working, helping publishers generate enough money to pay to digitize their bound volume archives. To try it, just contact Discover America’s Story … Continue reading
What We Learned at the Texas Press Association Conference
We were delighted to meet so many newspaper publishers and owners during the Texas Press Association conference earlier this month. We had some wonderful meetings with people eager to digitize their newspaper archives and make them online accessible. A third … Continue reading
Beware of some digitization programs & their fine print!
We’ve had several customers notify us that they have been contacted by a state governmental organization that wants to digitize their archives, but they discovered in the small print that the program requires them to give up some authority over … Continue reading
Energize Your Ad Revenue
We look forward to meeting with newspaper publishers at the Texas Press Association Midwinter Conference and Trade Show on January 21st! If you’re attending, please visit us in Booth #30 or contact us today – paulj@smalltownpapers.com. Below is a communication … Continue reading