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May 21, 2009
Fry Communications, Inc. Partners with GCN Publishing to Provide Publisher-Friendly Website Design for City and Regional Publications
Mechanicsburg, PA - 5/21/2009 - Fry Communications (www.frycomm.com) expands its stable of technology offerings for publishers
with a quickly deployable website utility geared specifically toward the needs of City and Regional Publications. Made possible
through a strategic partnership with GCN Publishing, the turnkey and modular design allows publishers to quickly and easily
create a revenue-generating City /Regional website with a host of features commonly associated with high end sites of this genre.
This affordable and feature rich package provides maximum opportunities for future customization and enhancement based on an
enduring standard technology platform.
Features include a suite of tools for sales lead tracking and delivery, subscription and registration, e-newsletter distribution,
and a video library module, and rich website functional modules such as restaurant guides, blogs, reviews, event guides,
city guides, and a topical channel search engine.
"This website technology is offered in response to the many requests we have received from our City and Regional Publishers.
It is certainly a welcome counterpart to our print services for the over 100 City and Regional Publications we serve," said
Steve Grande, Fry's VP of Sales. "We are pleased to offer such a robust and customizable alternative for regional website design.
GCN is a forward-thinking, well established company serving many well-known publishing companies, and we are pleased to partner
with them on this offering."
"We are pleased to team up with Fry to offer a robust, yet cost-effective alternative for City and Regional magazine publishers,"
said Joanne Persico, co-founder and president of GCN Publishing. "This new solution offers greater functionality than most
custom-developed solutions, at less than half the cost."
Celebrating 75 years, Fry Communications Inc. (www.frycomm.com) has continually expanded and diversified to meet the needs of
its customers. Fry offers a broad range of service from its campus in Mechanicsburg, PA. One of the nation's largest privately
held integrated communications companies, Fry provides category-leading premedia, printing, distribution, direct mail, fulfillment,
and information publishing services to its growing customer base. Fry's consultative approach creates strong, lasting partnerships,
and its diverse resources, respected expertise, and surprising flexibility delivers "outside of the box" solutions to today's
challenges - in print, by direct mail, on the Web, and beyond.
About GCN Publishing
GCN Publishing is the leading provider of Internet-based software and services to the media industry. The 13-year-old firm has
established a track record of helping media companies use Internet technology to lower costs and increase revenues. Services include
shrink-wrapped software, web site application development, web site hosting, and site design. The company has won numerous awards for
its work, including a Folio: Ozzie Award for Web Site Design Excellence. GCN's clients include BPA Worldwide, Keller Publishing, Atlantic
Communications, Advanstar, CMP Media, and more than 200 other media companies and associations.
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