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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! Click here to sign up for a demo subscription.

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.

 

The cost of the NewsToBuy service varies between 649 $US to 899 $US per month depending on contract time. Contact us if you are interested in a trial subscription.

 

The publishing system of NewsToBuy does not require any other software than a web browser.

 

Using NewsToBuy you can update the content of your web portal or magazine without having to know anything about HTML.

 

 

 

An example of a web portal built with NewsToBuy. Besides publishing your own news it is also possible to fetch and include news from other external web sites.

An example of a web portal built with NewsToBuy. The user can work easily with component-oriented templates and have access to several pre-built components for voting, web queries, discussion forums, mail-a-page, free text search et c.

 

Functions

Editorial

Publishing

·        Structured editing and updating of articles.

·        Updating/editing using Word-documents.

·        Editing directly from text documents.

·        Editing using web browsers.

·        Connect images and other multimedia objects to articles.

·        Create links to internal and external web pages.

·        Create links to internal and external PDF documents, Word, Excel- and other Office documents.

·        Create links to related articles.

·        Categorisation and placement of articles to different publications.

·        Prioritise of news.

·        Connect keywords different articles.

 

·        Dynamic publishing to different web pages.

·        Cross-media publishing to different web sites.

·        Support for multiple publications.

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

·        Meta data publishing using  RSS (Rich Site Summary).

·        Timer controlled publishing

·        Publishing after approval.

 

 

 

Presentation

Content Management

·        Choose your own layout for web pages.

·        Support for using Cascading Stylesheets.

·        Create and edit your own presentation templates.

·        Component-oriented templates. Select and place your own functions for voting, web queries, mail-a-page et c.

 

·        Create/edit your own publications.

·        Create/edit your own categories

·        Create/edit web queries.

·        Create/edit bylines/authors/responsible

·        Create/edit discussion forums.

·        Integrate external news feeds from established news agencies.

Administration

Misc.

·        Version control of templates

·        Re-use of content.

·        Article archive for retrieval of old stories.

·        Export of content to other formats.

·        Switch templates dynamically.

·        Switch language dynamically.

·        Copy publications/web sites.

·        Content statistics.

·        Free text and category searches in article archive.

·        Calender

·        Readers comments.

·        Web Queries, surveys.

·        Mail-a-page

·        Article rating

·        List mostly read articles, highest ranked articles.

·        On-line help.

 

 

 

 

System Requirements

·        None, all you need is a browser.