The Seybold Report

Software Consulting Services Announces New Software Distribution Technology

Software Consulting Services (SCS) has announced the company will deliver its newspaper software on Raspberry Pi computers rather than alternative options. SCS said in a press release detailing the move, "the Raspberry Pi allows us to supply our software on a low-cost, zero capital expenditure platform alternative to expensive traditional servers and the fog surrounding Cloud computing." SCS will demonstrate the solution this month at America East and MediaXchange. more

La Razón Revamps Web Site Using Protecmedia’s ITER Web Solution

Spanish newspaper La Razón recently revamped its Web site using Protecmedia’s ITER Web solution for the creation and management of Web pages. Protecmedia says the newspaper's management chose the solution because the journalists are able to manage the site, as well as add, edit, and change content without programming knowledge or Web site development skills. more

Newsquest Selects Miles 33 Media and Advertising Sales Systems

Miles 33 has announced Newsquest Media Group, a Gannett company and major United Kingdom print and online publisher, will install a 1500-seat Miles 33 Gemstone system and SAM, Miles 33's online customer self-service portal module. As a result, Miles 33 says, Newsquest will have a Cloud-based solution to handle its advertising media sales for its newspapers, magazines, and digital media outlets. more

America East Opens Registration

America East, the newspaper technology and operations conference, is scheduled for April 8-10 in its traditional venue location: the Hershey Conference Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, which administers the event, has announced it is now accepting registrations for this year's event. more

Chinese Newspaper Installs Atex Advertising

Jin Wan Bao, one of the ten largest newspapers in China with a circulation of 900,000, has installed the  Atex Advertising suite and has streamlined its advertising workflow. more 

ECRM and Dotline GMBH to Bring Platesetter to America

ECRM Inc. and Dotline GmbH have signed an agreement licensing ECRM to manufacture the Dotline NEWSmax high-speed newspaper CTP line in Tewksbury, MA. This agreement extends a contract between the companies supporting ECRM’s release of the NEWSmax high-speed violet CTP systems for newspapers through ECRM’s worldwide dealer network. ECRM is currently engaged in the start-up of the manufacturing operation. more 

ppi Media Signs Application Service Provider Contract with Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

ppi Media will monitor production systems in the data center of the Rhein-Necklar-Zeitung (RNZ) newspaper company in Heidelberg Germany to relieve the publisher’s IT staff of routine technical tasks. Later ppi Media will also maintain external systems and Linux OS systems at RNZ. more

ECRM and Dotline GMBH Partner to Product Newspaper CTP System

ECRM Imaging Systems and Dotline GmbH have announced worldwide release of the NEWSmax line of high-speed newspaper CTP machines. The new machines will provide production speeds up to 400 plates-per-hour. The ECRM-Dotline partnership will allow ECRM to provide a broader range of CTP systems to cover the needs of different newspapers. The new machines will be shown at IFRA. more

RP Media Group Standardizes on ppi Media's Content-X

Major German newspaper chain RP Media Group has selected Content-X from ppi Media for its centralized layout and editorial system and has already installed it at several of its newspapers. At Cellesche Zeitung the system is used to produce daily newspapers, for instance, while at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung it is used for magazines and at Schwabischer Zeitungsverlag it is used for weeklies. more

ECRM Released NewsMate Newspaper Production System

ECRM Imaging Systems has released ECRM NewsMate, which includes ECRM RIPmate based on Harlequin technology and an automated page-pairing feature for newspaper production. Newsmate can deliver multi-page PDF sections to a hot folder where they are automatically paired in appropriate order for plate imaging. more

Peruvian Publisher Modernizing Tech Infrastructure on Protecmedia

Peruvian media group Epensa will modernize its newspaper publishing infrastructure based on the Protecmedia Milenium Cross Media editorial platform. The upgrade covers editorial, archive, advertising, circulation, and all other aspects of production for four Epensa publications. more

Reynolds Predicts iPad to Cut Into Newspaper Print Subscriptions

The Reynolds Journalism Institute is predicting newspaper subscribers will begin dropping print subscriptions with iPad news apps. The conclusion is based on a three-month survey of well-educated, affluent men aged 35-64 who own iPads. The survey is the first phase of a multi-year research project to understand how iPad users consume news content. more

German Newspaper Printer Installs QuadTech Register Guidance System

Newspaper printer Union Druckerei Weimar GmbH has become the first German printing house to install QuadTech’s Register Guidance System with fan-out control to eliminate web growth during production and provide full ribbon control. The system was installed on a manroland Regioman. more

Amazon Extends 70% Revenue Share to Kindle Magazine and Newspaper Publishers

Amazon will provide a 70% royalty agreement to newspaper and magazine publishers selling e-versions of their periodicals through the Kindle store. The new agreement will allow publishers to earn 70% of the retail price of every magazine or newspaper sold through the store. The new terms take effect December 1. more

Major German Newspaper Chooses Atex for Web Publishing

Suddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper with a readership of 1.6 million people, is now publishing at www.sueddeutsche.de using the Atex Polopoly Web CMS. The Web site is one of the most important news sites in Germany with more than 160 million page impressions per month. The publisher uses the CMS system with its Atex editorial content management system to manage print and digital workflows. more