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By Steve Horton
iProduction

ST. PAUL, MN – April 24, 2003 – Rollcall.com, the Washington D.C. publisher of Congressional news and information on the Internet, has begun charging regular subscriptions for full access to the Web site. In addition, complete issues of Roll Call Newspaper, published in print since 1955, are now published on the site three days a week while Congress is in session. Previously, Rollcall.com published selected articles and columns from the newspaper, but did not publish complete issues.

St. Paul, Minnesota-based iProduction provides Rollcall.com with Internet publishing systems and related services. iProduction also provides Internet systems and services for Roll Call Daily, the publisher’s daily news service, and RC Jobs, an interactive employment service for organizations and job-seekers in the Washington D.C. region.

Stephen M. Laliberte, president of iProduction, said more and more Web publishers are placing complete issues on their Web sites and charging regular subscriptions for access. “These days, news publishers like Roll Call want to form a distinction between their Web publications and lesser Web sites,” Laliberte said. “A great way to do that is to deliver complete, branded issues on the Web. People perceive publication issues as valuable, organized information delivered on a reliable basis. That perception of value is what makes subscribers want to sign up.”

More About Roll Call, Inc.

Rollcall.com, Roll Call Newspaper, and RC Jobs are properties of Roll Call, Inc., widely regarded as the Nation’s leading publisher of Congressional news and information. Roll Call is known as “the newspaper of Capitol Hill”, enabling Members of Congress to communicate with one another across the aisle, between chambers, and beyond political party affiliations.

With accurate, unbiased reporting, Roll Call has earned a level of credibility and respect unparalleled in the marketplace and remained true to its mission: delivering superior coverage of the people, politics, and process of Congress. Erdos & Morgan’s 2000-01 Opinion Leaders survey showed Roll Call retains the highest Congressional readership among Capitol Hill publications.

Roll Call is a publishing unit of The Economist Group, LLC. Based in London, The Economist Group publishes foremost business and financial journals such as The Economist, CFO, The Journal of Commerce, European Voice, Business Central Europe, and Public Network Europe. The Economist Group employs 1,576 people across 39 different nationalities.

More About iProduction

iProduction is a privately held publishing software company located at 3570 Lexington Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. Companies that publish content on the Web rely on iProduction’s flagship product, the Internet Publishing System™, to manage content, sell products and services, deploy e-mail publications, and manage relationships with customers and subscribers. iProduction clients choose to pay monthly usage fees based on capacity utilized or license iProduction software to reduce per-site operating costs. Companies use the Internet Publishing System™ to publish online magazines, newsletters, product catalogs, industry journals, newspapers, e-mail alerts, and corporate information. Laliberte founded iProduction in 1994. The company currently employs 12 people.