NewsBank, the industry leader in newspaper archive services for more than 35 years, offers publishers a cost-effective, feature-rich online archive sales solution. NewsBank enables you to easily put a paid text article archive on your newspaper's Website. More than 500 newspapers use the NewsBank service to sell their content for $2.95 per article through paid Website text archives. The combination of both free and paid content helps drive traffic and revenue, and NewsBank can provide you with an online archive sales solution with no cost and little effort.

A unique business model
Based on a business model designed to maximize profits through revenue sharing and eliminate up-front, out-of-pocket costs, NewsBank’s online archives sales solution provides consumers with free, unlimited searches of content paired with access via per-article or package fees. Consumers are billed when they choose to view a full article or after they select a daily or weekly access pass. Thus, publishers can immediately generate additional revenue through their Website archives with no investment.

Customizable gateway to e-commerce
NewsBank Media Services can customize its application for fee-based archive access based on your specifications. Though searching Website archives is free, the results list provides only key article data such as the date, source, byline, headline, etc. as well as a limited number of words from the article. This serves as the gateway for e-commerce. NewsBank Media Services works closely with publishers to determine what level of content consumers can preview before they are allowed to purchase content.

Automatic updates
Again, there are no up-front costs for NewsBank’s archive sales program. NewsBank simply asks its publishing partners to provide a daily feed of their content from their front-end editorial system. Alternately, NewsBank can gather the content via the publisher’s Website using its PubFetch program, thus eliminating any effort on the part of the publisher.