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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Tera Triples Presence at Bolognese Publisher

MILAN March 10, 2009 – Tera Digital Publishing has parlayed an agreement to install 15 seats of its GN3 editorial system at a small newspaper in Bologna, northern Italy, into a 55-seat sale under which the paper’s larger parent title will drop its existing system vendor and consolidate both papers on Tera.

Tera reseller GMDE had worked to sell the 15-seat system to Il Domani (Tomorrow), a Left-leaning Bologna newspaper best known for its coverage of politics and sport and aimed at younger readers, when events overtook the paper, launched only in 2000 but recently in poor financial health, and it was bought out by é TV Net 7, a regional broadcaster.

é TV Net 7 is owned by the €452 million turnover Gruppo Spallanzani SpA, based in the nearby city of Reggio Emilia, and at the beginning of 2009 Spallanzani moved to merge Il Domani with L’Informazione, a much larger newspaper the group owns, which has editions in Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Modena, and Parma.

L’Informazione is currently being produced on a 50-seat Macintosh-based editorial system. But under the new agreement with GMDE, the merged publication will move to GN3, which is PC based.

L’Informazione will buy 55 seats of GN3’s Ted editing application and Fred page layout tool and will also install Tera’s XML-based Tark archiving system.

Carlo Caporizzi of GMDE said, “We were able to persuade the L‘Informazione management that GN3 would prove a better system that could run the combined Il Domani and L‘Informazione. We were able to show that Tera could provide better value than the current Macintosh-based system.”

The name of Il Domani, which had been started by the publisher of a similar newspaper with the same title in Calabria in the south of Italy, remains on the front page of the Bologna edition of L’Informazione, and content from Il Domani will reinforce the parent paper.

About GMDE:
GMDE is the Tera dealer for Italy.
In Italy, Tera produces more than 40 mainly mid-sized titles. With an average circulation of 25 thousand copies a day, the majority of the Italian customers produce a regional paper or a chain of local papers.
Libero and La Padania, two national dailies, are produced using GN3. Libero, which is based in Milan, uses a 100 seat GN3 system to produce an average of 48 pages daily and over 70 thousand copies a day. La Padania, the daily Milan newspaper of the Northern League Party, has 50 seats and a nationwide daily circulation of 50.000 copies. La Padania also publishes their content on the web.
In the south of Italy, two of the most prestigious papers of the area, La Gazzetta del Sud, based in Messina, and Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, based in Bari, use Tera’s GN3. These two titles cover the south of the country with over 100 thousand copies a day produced by more than 250 seats.
Other Italian papers served by Tera’s GN3 are Corriere di Como, Corriere Adriatico, Gazzetta di Parma, Eco di Biella, the chain owned by media enterpreneur Mr Ciarrapico, Latina Oggi and Ciociaria Oggi and the two free press chains E Polis and DNews; the Italian media group CEGA, with 5 titles that cover the Adriatic Riviera, and the DMedia group with titles published in the northern part of Italy.

About Tera Digital Publishing:
Tera DP is a worldwide manufacturer of editorial, web, content management, pre-press and archiving solutions for newspaper and magazine publishing. With more than 300 installations worldwide, Tera is a recognized world leader in newspaper publishing technology.
Dominant in many of our markets, Tera is best known for the quality of our engineering, the ease-of-use of our products and their very low cost of ownership.
Tera's product line includes multi-media editorial, archiving, advertising and prepress solutions. All Tera products deliver the highest performance, maximum reliability and low operating costs. Tera solutions are installed quickly, and easily, with the smallest impact on the organization.
More information is available through Tera offices and resellers worldwide.

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