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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
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
Why newspaper ad sales teams love Discover America’s Story.
At its core, Discover America’s Story is about newspapers making more money. The program provides a sales team with tools to sell additional advertising – often to businesses that generally do not purchase ads. Why would they suddenly be motivated? … Continue reading
Need to digitally preserve your archives? Give it a try.
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. … Continue reading
The real story about digitizing newspaper archives.
Newspaper publishers are finding Discover America’s Story a great way to generate new revenue – money they can use to finally digitize and put their historic archives online for everyone to search and explore. We’re finding that many people have … Continue reading
Who controls your newspaper’s digital archive?
As word has begun to spread about this month’s launch of Discover America’s Story, small town and community newspaper publishers have been quick to call and ask questions about just how the revenue generating program works. They’ve been looking for ways … Continue reading
What a digitized archive can do for your newspaper.
Discover America’s Story’s parent company, SmallTownPapers, has been digitizing small market newspaper archives for years. Of all of the archives digitized and hosted online, the Shelton-Mason County Journal in Washington … Continue reading
Generating New Revenue to Support Archive Digitization
Tim Schnoebelen knows how much his community loves nostalgically looking back at days gone by. He occasionally places pictures from his newspaper office on a table and lets the community go through them and select those they’d like to keep. … Continue reading