Olive Lands 5 Newspaper Clients

By: Updated at 5 p.m.

Olive Software of Denver announced five new newspaper clients on Tuesday. The publishers will be using Olive's ActivePaper software to provide electronic versions of current and archived print editions -- as they originally appeared in print.

The new clients are Forum Communications Group of Fargo, N.D.; Freedom Communications Inc.'s Northwest Florida Group and Colorado papers; Oklahoma Publishing Co. of Oklahoma City; The Reading Eagle Co. of Pennsylvania; and WEHCO Communications of Little Rock, Ark.

Irvine, Calif.-based Freedom's East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Ariz., was the first paper to launch Olive's software, back in March. Now Freedom papers in the Florida Panhandle and The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo., will launch their electronic editions.

After launching The Forum's ActivePaper Daily version, Forum Communications will launch their other daily papers on the Olive platform later this summer.

The Daily Oklahoman is digitizing archived microfilm of 2.7 million pages using the ActivePaper Archive product. Kelly Dyer, general manager of the newspaper's Web site, said the paper plans to later launch a same-day digital edition, which will probably involve a subscription fee.

Olive also announced that the University of Missouri will use Olive technology to digitize a collection of Civil War-era newspapers.