Publishers who are already using Discover America’s Story to generate fresh revenue, some of which they can use to digitize their loose and bound volume archives, say showing potential advertisers/sponsors the online archive has made it simple to secure sponsors. Once they see the newspapers online, they almost always sign on.
Publisher of The Mooreland Leader in Oklahoma, Tim Schnoebelen, shared, “With Discover America’s Story ready-to-go ad program, we were able to easily sell community sponsorships and generate the revenue we needed to preserve and put our archive online.” He was able to initiate archive scanning and continue at a much faster pace than he originally anticipated.
Publishers have an opportunity to try a shipment and see how it works. Send some of your bound volumes, have them scanned and safely returned to you, then show you prospective advertisers the online archive and encourage them to become a sponsor of your archive preservation project. Revenue generated from sponsorships can help you pay for future shipments and scanning should you decide to continue.
All newspapers are scanned intact and publishers own all digital scans and are in complete control of where they are hosted online.
Give it a try today. Contact Discover America’s Story to get started.
