Volume 9 , Issue 12

The Freedom Call Goes On-Line

Do you subscribe to The Freedom Call newspaper out of Freedom, Oklahoma? Do you live out of state with a computer and internet connection? The Freedom Call will soon be available on the Web. That is according to the front page article in The Call's March 22, 2007 issue.

As I was reading this week's Issue of The Freedom Call, Volume 86, Number 12, Thursday, March 22, 2007, one of the front page headlines read, The Freedom Call Soon To Be Available on Web. Subscriptions Go On Sale Next Week. Grab next week's "Freedom Call" for more details.

According to the editor (Donna Hodgson), "The Freedom Call is upgrading to the worldwide web and will be availble on-line, ready to read the same day the paper is mailed each week. Instantly, The Call's online subscribers will be able to catch up with news of their hometown paper."

The Call article mentioned that the on-line, one year subscription fee will be $25 with a free version of the weekly product available soon. We are told to watch next week's newspaper for the dates. The article goes on to state, "One-year subscription to the on-line paper will allow subscribers to look at the past three months' newspapers as well as the most current issue."

The front page article also says, "The Call and many other newspapers throughout Oklahoma have joined in a partnership with ColorMax located in Payneville, MN, and have taken advantage of a process that makes PDF files of the newspaper text searchable. Oklahoma Press Association, a statewide newspaper group, recently introduced OPEN (Oklahoma Press Electronic News) to newspapers throughout the state in an effort to make on-line subscriptions available. Numerous newspapers are taking advantage."

If subscribers want access to issues further back than three months, they will be required to pay an additional fee. It sounds like that eventually subscribers will be able to research previous Freedom Call files all the way back to 1906. This would be great for genealogy researchers. Way to go Freedom and The Freedom Call for making yourselves available on the World Wide Web! We wish you much success now and in the future!
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