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By Steve Horton
iProduction

Baltimore, MD – The Daily Record, Maryland’s only statewide daily newspaper covering business and legal news, has begun charging subscription fees for full access to the newspaper’s Web site located at mddailyrecord.com. Annual subscriptions to the site are $39. Web subscribers who also want to receive the print version of the newspaper receive a coupon for $39 off of the annual price of their next print renewal. Christopher A. Eddings, publisher of The Daily Record, said subscribers are attracted by the site’s in-depth business content. “So far, we’re extremely pleased with response on our site,” Eddings said. “We’re gaining an average of five paid subscriptions each business day.” Eddings also said the number of site “visitors,” those who scan The Daily Record’s headlines but do not choose to pay for full access to the site, has been favorable. Web publishers generally prefer high numbers of site visitors because they help attract advertisers and because they often become paying subscribers in the future. iProduction of St. Paul, Minnesota, provided The Daily Record with an Internet publishing system that processes subscribers’ payments and gives them access to subscriber-only areas of the site. Stephen M. Laliberte, president of iProduction, said most Web publishers want to charge subscription fees, but not all can. “The Daily Record is getting it done,” Laliberte said. “They’re producing high-value Web content, day-in and day-out, that people are willing to pay for. That’s not an easy thing for a newspaper to do.” More About The Daily Record
The Daily Record is published Monday through Saturday. In-depth news and information about Maryland business, finance, health care, and technology appear each day with additional news focus sections on Thursday (Off the Record), and Friday (Real Estate & Construction). The Web site provides coverage of each day’s news, including the Saturday Statewide Review edition The Daily Record was founded in 1888 by Edwin Warfield, who from 1904 to 1908 was the governor of Maryland. In May 1994, after four generations in the Warfield family, the business was sold to Dolan Media Company (dolanmedia.com). Offices are located in Baltimore, Maryland. Current readership of the newspaper exceeds 30,000 business and professional readers each day. More About iProduction
The iProduction Internet Publishing System™ enables publishers to operate feature-rich news sites with little or no programming. iProduction is an application service provider (ASP), meaning that system users can pay usage fees rather than buying iProduction systems outright. iProduction also licenses its software to larger publishers who can reduce costs by hosting many web publications on a single system. The company’s clients include newsletters, industry journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Company president Stephen M. Laliberte founded iProduction in 1994. iProduction is privately held and is located at 3570 Lexington Avenue North in St. Paul, Minnesota.