Palatine, IL The Open Press, Inc. http://www.theopenpress.com was launched in January 2005. CEO and owner Diane Stuercke is working diligently to provide the best possible news service to her clients registered on the site. Formerly known as openpress.com, http://www.theopenpress.com is under new ownership and has a new management team performing better than ever.

While the site is used for press releases, it offers a few other services not found in some online news services --

A Voice
In addition to the free press release wire service, every paid and free press release, article/op-ed or news story, gets a free topic started in the community forum where everyone who wants to discuss them can do so. The software automatically starts the topic in the discussion board for each press release, article/op-ed or news story submitted. This way, all the news submitted will have a voice.

Book Reviews
The Book Review section offers a place for authors and publishers alike to promote their books. Listing a book may provide a great chance of exposure and notice when readers use search engines. By having a review published, authors also can include more information that wouldn't be found on other sites. Include an author's bio or a short excerpt to give potential readers that extra incentive to buy your work. There are millions of books available online, let us help them find that diamond in the rough. The $20 service includes cover art, 1000 words of space to write a description or review and will automatically create a link to Amazon.com . The small, featured book area has the top five books with the most stars. The others can be accessed from searching by keywords or genre.

Articles & Op-Eds (Opinion Editorials)
Every year, tens of thousands of students seek a degree in journalism or related fields. The Open Press, Inc. has added this section to give these students and writers a chance to establish their portfolio and resume. Because they expect millions of people to read these Articles and Op-Eds over the course of time, they charge a very small fee of $10 to cover the bandwidth usage. Furthermore, news media professionals and thousands of website owners would be far more inclined to appraise each Article or Op-Ed if they knew it was submitted by someone who had to pay to have it listed in the RSS Feed. This ensures a certain degree of quality as well as respect for the author. Many website owners are seeking quality content for their community websites. They offer each student, writer and journalist an opportunity to provide that content, while at the same time, giving each Article and Op-Ed an audience. Many professional journalists, individual writers and the like, write quality materials, which their own media employer will not publish for one reason or another. Now you have a chance to publish your work and know it will be read.

Newsworthy Stories
Because the mainstream media has to please its advertisers, many important stories never make it into the mainstream media for political reasons. Also, many important stories never make it to the mainstream media because some press release services do not have an option for such stories to be submitted and assessed. For these reasons The Open Press, Inc. has decided to include such a feature. In addition, many website owners seeking content for their sites would love to have their organized sites syndicate such stories. If a website contains exceptional content, the more attractive it will be to its visitors. Furthermore, more and more websites become community websites because people love to have a place where they can belong. A small fee of $10 is charged for bandwidth usage.

The Open Press, Inc. is not just another free press release portal. It's a newswire wanting to help spread your news for you.


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