4 Feb
2004
4 Feb
'04
12:43 p.m.
I get press releases and other news sent to me every day, thanks to an agreement
my employer has with Factiva, who get their press releases from PR Newswire
(http://www.prnewswire.com/). This includes plenty of Linux news, big and
small, so I was thinking that LinuxAudio could take advantage of this to get
their important news out, e.g. the Sounds Expo visit next week.
The good news is that any individual or organization can register with them and
distribute their press releases globally: the bad news is that it costs $125 a
year to do so. So, this is sonething to keep in mind for the future, perhaps.
Thanks,
Brian Thomson
Dublin, Ireland
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4 Feb
4 Feb
1:08 p.m.
Hi Brian,
The good news is that any individual or organization
can register
with them and distribute their press releases globally: the bad
news is that it costs $125 a year to do so.
I did actually look into the cost of this sort of thing, and the
quotes I got were around $400 per release to send just to one group
of journalists. I think the membership fee is just that, then you pay
by the word for each release - minimum 400 words. Extra categories of
journalists and photos etc. cost extra.
For the time being I was going to use linuxpr.com and lwn.net, which
are free as in beer, eg:
http://linuxpr.com/releases/6572.html
If there's an equivalent website for the audio/music industry, I think
it would be better to use that - far better targetted, and probably a
lot cheaper. Direct contacts are more valuable than newswire
releases, in my opinion, so hopefully we'll be building those up too.
Cheers
Daniel
1:27 p.m.
Daniel James wrote:
Hi Brian,
as an aside, lwn.net closely monitors the linux-audio-announce list.
anything you post there will almost certainly be included in their
daily updates and weekly issues, and on their rss feed as well.
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Jo"rn Nettingsmeier
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http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)
The good news is that any individual or
organization can register
with them and distribute their press releases globally: the bad
news is that it costs $125 a year to do so.
I did actually look into the cost of this sort of thing, and the
quotes I got were around $400 per release to send just to one group
of journalists. I think the membership fee is just that, then you pay
by the word for each release - minimum 400 words. Extra categories of
journalists and photos etc. cost extra.
For the time being I was going to use linuxpr.com and lwn.net, which
are free as in beer, eg: 
1:43 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:19:12 +0000, Daniel James wrote:
If there's an equivalent website for the
audio/music industry, I think
it would be better to use that - far better targetted, and probably a
lot cheaper. Direct contacts are more valuable than newswire
releases, in my opinion, so hopefully we'll be building those up too.
I think harmony-central is quite widely read, you can post news to news AT
harmony-central.com and events to
http://www.harmony-central.com/cgi-bin/events-entry.pl
- Steve
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