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Seattle Times - April 29, 2008
E-editions help Times, P-I boost circulation
by Eric Pryne
Increase in electronic editions enables circulation increases at Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Newspapers and Technology - April 14, 2008
Interview on Digital Editions
From the NEXPO floor, Mel Taylor speaks with Olive Software Sales Director John Mahoney about the company’s forthcoming release of ActivePaper Daily 4.0. Olive's updated e-edition boasts a Flash interface and insertion of rich media among other features.

Folio Magazine - April 3, 2008
The State of Digital Magazine Delivery, 2008
by Jane E. Zarem
Discussion of the recent growth in digital magazines.

EContent - March 2008
It Ain't Easy Being Green
by Robert J. Boeri
How digital newspapers can help reduce the 900,000 tons of newsprint produced each month in the United States.

EContent - March 2008
Digital Magazines: In Search of a Problem
by Steve Smith
The author overcomes his skepticism about digital magazines and cites some compelling applications for this format.

Newspapers and Technology - February 2008
4 Questions with Yuval Rachmilevitz
Interview with Olive's CEO about why digitized content is the lure newspapers must exploit to attract new audiences.

Media Magazine - February 2008
Start The Revolution Without Me
By Steve Smith
Article about the inevitable but slow move towards digital technologies, including TV, radio, and magazines.

San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal - January 25, 2008
Archiving digital publications becomes growing market
By Emma Ritch
Article about how publications are putting making their content digital so people can view it through Web browsers or mobile phones.

Mobile Marketer - January 24, 2008
Olive adds text messaging option for news delivery
By Reva McEachern
Article about how Olive is extending traditional publishing to the mobile realm.

D-Lib Magazine - January/February 2008
The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective
By Edwin Klijn
Article that discusses the finer points of digitizing old newspapers. Examples include Olive customers such as The Scotsman, Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection, and British Library.

GreenTechPastures/ZDNET Blog - November 18, 2007
More Publishers Seeing Green, Especially Olive Green.
By Harry Fuller

Editor & Publisher - November 15, 2007
Will They Still Call it the City Paper?

GreenTechPastures/ZDNET Blog - November 12, 2007
Three Things That Could Help you Save Some Trees
By Heather Clancy

GoodCleanTech - November 12, 2007
Using Olive Software to Take a Print Newspaper Digital:
A conversation with the City Paper in Nashville

CNET - November 6, 2007
Geeking Out:
Gorgeous Digital Edition Magazines

CM/Circulation Management - November 2, 2007
Growing New media Channels
by Barbara Love

WebProNews - November 6, 2007
Rolling Stone Rocks Digital Edition
Discussion about Olive-powered online version of Rolling Stone magazine.

Folio - November 6, 2007
Rolling Stone Takes Another Digital Babystep
Rolling Stone put its 213-page 40th anniversary edition online as a digital edition, developed by Olive Software and sponsored by LG.

HeraldNet - November 5, 2007
Rolling Stone goes digital - Third edition of 40th anniversary issues available in entirety online
Article about the ease-of-use of Rolling Stone's digital edition of its 40th anniversary issue.

Guardian - November 3, 2007
From Stockwell to the web (via Tel Aviv)
Detailed coverage about the origins of the Guardian archive and the underlying processes and technology that makes it all possible.

Guardian Unlimited - October 25, 2007
Guardian and Observer to launch online archive
Article about the need to preseve centuries old material and make it available online using Olive.

Editor and Publisher - October 19, 2007
24-Hour Web Access to Two Centuries of 'Observer', 'Guardian' Pages
Article about the Guardian from 1821-1975 and The Observer from 1900-1975 are going online in a searchable archive.

Circulation Management - October 17, 2007
The Guardian Chooses Olive to Power Digital Archive
Article about phase one of the Guardian's digitization project, which will eventually put over 1.2 million pages online.

Library Journal - October 15, 2007
UP Using Olive for Digitization
Article about why University of Pennsylvania, with 15 libraries and more than five million volumes and 300 staffers, chose Olive as the solution that best fit its digital architecture which relies heavily on metadata in the METS schema.

Min's B2B - October 15, 2007
Reed Embraces the Digital Magazine Possibilities
Article about adoption rates of digital edition magazines. (login required)

EContent - October 10, 2007
Olive to Introduce Mobile Content Technology
Article about Olive's new mobile offerings on iPhone and Blackberry handheld devices.

mins b2b- October 8, 2007
Digi-Mags Take Another Run at the Market
Article about next-generation digital magazines, including Olive ActiveMagazine 3.0. (login required)

Jewish Exponent - October 4, 2007
Treasures of the Past Made Vivid via the Magic of Digitizing
Article about the American Geniza Project and how it makes thousands of rare documents from 18th- and 19th-century American Jewish life available online.

Folio - October 2, 2007
Improving Publishers' Archiving Capabilities
Article about ViewPoint 2.0 and its scalability, automated component detection and improved customization capabilities.

Editor & Publisher - September 27, 2007
Olive Software Showcases Technology for Hand-held Devices
Article about Olive's ability to deliver content to Blackberry, iPhone, and other mobile devices.

CMS Wire - September 27, 2007
Olive Serves up Tasty Microcontent Treats for Publishers
Article about microcontent and its impact on Web publishers.

B2B Magazine - September 24, 2007
Olive Software Releases Web 2.0 Platform
Article about how ViewPoint provides content providers with a way to repurpose and monetize content for the Web.

Editor & Publisher - September 24, 2007
Olive Releases ViewPoint 2.0
Article about ViewPoint's ability to capture, preserve, access, componentize, repurpose and monetize content for the Web, as well as redefine traditional markets for content.

Adotas - where interactive advertising begins - September 21, 2007
Olive Promotes Microcontent With ViewPoint 2.0
Article about how ViewPoint provides simple solutions for publishers coming up against ad revenue and subscription challenges to capture, preserve, access, componentized, repurpose and monetize content from the web.

The News-Gazette (University of Illinois)
Courier Digitizaton Project
Extensive coverage of the launch of the Digital Urbana Daily Courier archive, covering the years 1916 through 1925. The school points out that this period includes key historical events such as the entry of the U.S. into World War I, the Russian Revolutions of 1917, the flu pandemic, the Black Sox scandal, prohibition, female suffrage, postwar recovery, and the rapid rise of science and technology.
Related coverage includes a recorded interview with Mary Stuart, head of the Univerity of Illinois History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library.
The school issued a press release "Decade of Urbana Daily Courier to be available online".

Newspapers and Technology - July 2007
Hybrid subscribers accelerating double-digit growth in e-editions
Article about top electronic editions (Olive powers 3 of the top 5!) and how they give newspapers new tools for expanding their circulation.

Editor and Publisher - June 29, 2007
Hybrid Subscribers Accelerating Growth in e-Editions
Discussion of how hybrid subscriptions (combination of print and electronic editions) are bring new optimism to the newspaper industry.

Editor and Publisher - May 10, 2007
'K.C. Star' Selects Olive Software for Electronic Edition
Article about how one of the McClatchy newspapers, The Kansas City Star, is using Olive ActivePaper Daily to produce an electronic edition newspaper and build a content respository for future use.

Editor and Publisher - May 8, 2007
Converted by Olive, Farifax Archive Now Online
Coverage on how Fairfax Media is using Olive ActivePaper Archive to transform their microfilm collection into an online resource for their readers.

FOLIO - May 1, 2007
Digital Magazines Take the Next Step
Story about how magazine are using their digital editions to make their content available globally. Includes a quote by Olive's CEO about making magazine content searchable online and an example about Olive customer ESPN.

CM / Circulation Management - April 30, 2007
Digital Magazines As Social Networking Tools
CM discusses how magazines are moving onto the Web to bring new functions to their subscribers. Nice examples about Olive customers including Heavy Duty Trucking magazine.

Editor & Publisher - February 2007
Blackout
E&P discusses how the Seattle Times dealt with the catastrophic storm with over 100mph winds on December 14, 2006. Although it does not mention Olive by name, the e-edition in the article refers to Olive.

Newspapers & Technology - February 2007
Dec. storms slow down print runs, drive readers to Web, e-editions
Olive Electronic Editions allow Denver Post and Seattle Times to deliver their papers in spite of massive storms and power outages.

Newspaper Association of America Presstime - January 2007
Article on the success of the Colorado Springs Gazette implementation of Olive ActivePaper Daily and how they use hybrid subscription models.