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Newstex Launches Content On Demand; Instant access to full-text premium news for content distributors and enterprise customersSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. --(Business Wire)-- April 11, 2005 -- At the Buying & Selling eContent conference which opened here today, Newstex, the Content On Demand(TM) company, announced the availability of instant, full-text premium newsfeeds, giving content distributors and enterprise customers cost-effective access to tailored newsfeeds from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds and weblogs. Publishers for Content On Demand include The Associated Press, BBC Monitoring International, Business Wire, KRT InfoConnect, Edgar Online, M2 Communications, Xinhua News Agency, United Press International, and many more. "The content industry is changing," said Larry Schwartz, Newstex's President. "With the rise of open standards, XML, RSS and blogs, one size does not fit all. Content On Demand from Newstex delivers tailored newsfeeds as a service, eliminating the hassles of acquiring and integrating full-text content for our distributor and enterprise customers--instantly providing them with branded news at reduced cost, minimum risk and optimum ROI." "Today's institutions need just-in-time content value from publishers with high efficiency and usability," commented John Blossom, President of Shore Communications Inc., a leading research and advisory service focusing on organizations that deal with professionally-oriented content. "Many powerful content feeds require investments in costly and complex feed processing systems that drain limited resources and budgets away from other critical content needs. Content On Demand from Newstex provides an attractive solution for managing content delivery from leading news and commentary sources that maximizes the efficiency and usability of critical sources without costly infrastructure investments." Customer Benefits Content On Demand eliminates lengthy publisher negotiation and development efforts for Newstex customers. Full-text digital news and commentary feeds are made instantly available in standardized format, with value-added stock ticker symbols, people tickers, taxonomy-based categorization and robust meta-tagging--all as easy-to-integrate XML or RSS newsfeeds. -- Reduces cost. Content On Demand eliminates upfront licensing fees to publishers, as well as implementation, integration, maintenance, and upgrade headaches. -- Optimizes time to value. Content On Demand customers instantly integrate newsfeeds from Newstex and new content may be effortlessly added at any time. -- Lowers risk. Content On Demand significantly lowers implementation risk for projects requiring full-text, easily-managed newsfeeds. Publisher Benefits Content On Demand offers publishers a highly effective alternative to direct content sales. By using Newstex to deliver newsfeeds as a service on a subscription basis, publishers achieve predictable, recurring revenue streams. Publishers can leverage Newstex's advanced infrastructure to develop new value-added features and processes to their content, while speeding up implementation and avoiding upfront investment. About Newstex Newstex offers Content On Demand, including tailored, real-time news and commentary from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds and weblogs. Newstex collects full-text digital news and commentary feeds, standardizes the content format, adds stock ticker symbols, people tickers and categories, and instantly delivers the result as easy-to-integrate XML or RSS newsfeeds. Content On Demand from Newstex is the fastest way for content distributors and enterprise customers to cost-effectively integrate full-text premium, tailored newsfeeds at reduced cost, minimum risk and optimum ROI. http://www.newstex.com/ |
