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Clickshare adds The Asian Banker and
two U.S. newspapers for online subscription-management,
card processing and user-access services
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 6, 2005 -- Clickshare Service Corp., a leading online subscription-management,
card-processing and access-control service for the newspaper industry, has added its first international publisher and
two additional U.S. newspapers.
The newest customers are:
The Asian Banker, based in Singapore, will use Clickshare for access-control and subscription management
to
its
website. The fast-growing Asian Banker group, founded in 1996 by entrepreneur and journalist Emmanuel Daniel, provides
consulting services and runs an annual Far East banking conference.
The Lawton [Okla.] Constitution, will use Clickshare for subscription-access to its website.
The
Constitution,
(circ. 24,388 daily; 27,742 Sunday), has been in the Bentley family since 1910 and is Oklahoma's third-largest daily.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, of Northampton, Mass., (circ. 20,000) is already using Clickshare to
register,
authenticate and manage online subscriptions for users of its "GazetteNET" online service serving the Five College
area
of Massachusetts. With Clickshare, The Gazette is able to link online use to its print subscriber database,
offering
the web as a value-added service for print subscribers while realizing added revenue from web-only subscriptions.
The
Gazette is also family owned.
"We chose Clickshare because they have been innovative in developing the market for online content for years, yet they
are still personal in the way they handle their clients," says Gerry LeBlanc, new-media director at The Gazette.
"[They] provide the best content-control solution in terms of simplicity and stability as well as flexibility for the
long term."
About Clickshare
Cickshare's online registration and credit-card billing services can provide print subscribers free access to
premium content, while charging ABC-certifiable web-only customers. It provides a full-featured site registration,
authentication and billing service -- subscription or per-click, full or partial site -- and easily integrates with
major
web servers, Publicus, Olive, PBS and Lotus Domino. With Clickshare, newspapers and other publications can also manage
and charge for web archives from their existing servers while retaining original graphics, design and copyright. And
Clickshare can log and track page access, for integration with ad-server technologies.
Clickshare's customers include units of the New York Times Co., Gannett Co. Inc., Washington Post Co., Journal
Register
Co., and the Times Publishing Co. (Erie [Pa.] Times-News) as well as smaller and niche publishers of
newspapers,
newsletters, consumer information and government records. Clickshare is also developing transaction systems with
music-industry partners to provide revenue-generating, copyright-protected, file sharing.
Privately held Clickshare has offices in Williamstown, Mass. It's investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC,
the
University of Massachusetts, MultiService Corp., Comtex News Network Inc. and private individuals, including founding
executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago
Sun-Times. It has a
nine-year track record of service to the newspaper industry.
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Contacts:
Clickshare
Ed Bride, 413-442-7718
ed@edbride-pr.com
Greg Smith, 413-458-7000 ext 102
gsmith@clickshare.com
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