With more than 35 years of experience, NewsBank is the industry leader for hosting e-commerce-enabled newspaper archives for consumer access. NewsBank currently hosts more than 500 Website archives. By leveraging its data storage, bandwidth and customer service resources, NewsBank offers publishers a cost-effective, feature-rich archive solution designed to maximize revenue and eliminate out-of-pocket costs. Hosted by NewsBank, Website archives begin to generate revenue immediately.

Exclusive features and benefits
Some of the many features and benefits of NewsBank’s archive hosting services include:

• A business model with no up-front costs and a generous revenue sharing agreement
• E-commerce that supports a variety of bundling options and pricing packages, along with recommendations based on “best practices”
• Support for user/password authentication, IP recognition and referred remote authentication
• A design template providing a high level of customization to extend your branding
• State-of-the-art services for billing and transaction processing
• Web-based access to financial reporting and statistics for archive access, usage, subscribers and more
• Unlimited access to your database for staff and employees
• Exclusive distribution of your content into the education and library markets

Support for free archive access
However, if you want to provide subscribers with free access to the online archives, NewsBank Media Services works with you to authenticate users and serve up the archives without invoking the NewsBank e-commerce gate. NewsBank’s Customer Service group will still field all customer emails and calls.

Extend your branding
NewsBank’s product design enables your publication to prominently feature its branding. You have total control over the look and feel of your archive Website. NewsBank provides templates that are easy to use, so you can implement your Website archives in any way that you want. NewsBank’s Customer Service group will also help you set up your search and display pages, or it can set them up for you at no charge.

An end-to-end solutions provider
NewsBank is committed to the successful distribution of publishers’ archives to the consumer marketplace. To this end, NewsBank Media Services welcomes the opportunity to work with publishers and build business partnerships for archive creation, hosting, distribution and more.