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  "title": "eReleases: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "eReleases is on the PR software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated 1998.",
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    "text": "\"Step Into the Spotlight. A Press Release Service That Delivers.\" A Baltimore press release service for small businesses, startups and authors, founded in 1998. Every release goes out on a custom national Cision PR Newswire distribution, and eReleases also emails it to journalists, bloggers and influencers it hand-picks from its own 1.7 million-contact database. Editors review every release, writers draft one for $300, and a WireWatch report proves pickup within about two hours, with a PR Newswire Visibility Report. It has no AI features and no self-serve database or monitoring.",
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