NewsToBuy is a unique publishing service for small and medium-sized publishers – trade portals, trade magazines, local newspapers, freelance journalists and business intelligence specialists - offering them all editorial tools and cross media publishing functions needed to run a professional publishing business at an affordable price. The following is included in the service:

· Professional Editorial System

· Article archive

· Cross media publishing to different formats and multiple portals

· Customised newsletters.

· Database, hardware, software and Internet connection

Everything is included at a low monthly rate. Smart publishing! Visit the NewsToBuy Web to learn more.

Usage

· Freelance journalists that have assignments to cover certain fields of interest for their clients. News feeds can be delivered from NewsToBuy to web sites or the client’s internal systems.

· Business intelligence specialists who needs to deliver news and competitive information to corporate intranets, through mail or other channels to different groups of users.

· Trade magazines, who want to complement the paper edition with a professional and living web site at a low cost.

· Trade portals, who want to create traffic and interest combining their own news feeds with external feeds.

Description

NewsToBuy gives our customers access to the same advanced functions that large newspapers have in their publishing systems. We can offer this at an affordable price because we are using Internet’s possibilities in combination with the latest publishing techniques.

NewsToBuy is smart publishing. Rent your professional publishing system instead of buying one.

NewsToBuy is based on an ASP-concept (Application Service Provider). This means that NewsToBuy takes care of everything including software, database, hardware and Internet Connection. As a customer, all you need is a web browser.

Functions

Editorial

Publishing

· Structured editing and updating of articles.

· Article archive for retrieval of old stories.

· Support for multiple publications.

· Categorisation and placement of articles to different publications

· Prioritise of news.

· Create/change your own categories/publications/bylines

· Editing using web browsers.

· Updating/editing using Word-documents.

· Connect images and other multimedia objects to articles.

· Connect links and related articles

· Integrate external news feeds from established news agencies.

· Edit readers comments.

· Dynamic publishing to different web pages.

· Choose your own layout for web pages.

· Cross-media publishing to different web sites.

· Publishing to different formats – XML, HTML, Quark, Excel, Word.

· Readers comments.

· Free text and category searches in article archive.

· News export using FTP and Mail

· Timer controlled publishing

· Newsletter and subscriber database.

· User interface for subscribers to register and de-register themselves for different newsletters.

System Requirements

· None, all you need is a browser.