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NewspaperDirect 
Founder(s) Alex Kroogman Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Website pressreader.com NewspaperDirect Inc. is a digital newspaper distribution and publishing operator with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and offices in New York, London, Vienna and Düsseldorf. NewspaperDirect delivers newspapers and magazines from all over the world to readers anywhere in the world, in every currently available format: print, online, or on a mobile device, tablet or eReader.
Their innovative digital publishing technology and zero operational-cost business model has made NewspaperDirect a recognized leader in multichannel content distribution and monetization, and the chosen partner of more than 1,900 publishers from 95 countries.
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Company history
Founded in 1999, NewspaperDirect has agreements with over 1,400 newspaper and magazine publishers from 87 countries to market, sell and/or print their publications around the world and over the internet.
Print-On-Demand is the company's digital newspaper printing network, with over 100 licensed partners, at more than 1,200 print locations in 105 countries.
Same-day editions of international publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, The Times, Le Figaro, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Daily Mail, El Pais, South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Il Giornale are available to luxury hotels, libraries, cruise ships, corporate offices, yachts, retail outlets, research facilities, home subscribers, international summits/events and Web browsers.
In 2005, NewspaperDirect introduced its two digital platforms, PressDisplay.com (an online newspaper kiosk) and SmartEdition (a universal publishing platform for electronic editions of newspapers and magazines). In 2010, NewspaperDirect released its application for mobile devices, PressReader, allowing its users to access all of the publications from PressDisplay.com in a user-friendly, mobile-friendly format. The company has been working continuously to provide the app to all smart phone and tablet platforms.
Products and technology
Mobile Products
PressReader
ND Press
PressReader is a free application that enables users to download publications to their PC, Mac, tablet, mobile device or eReader allowing offline reading.Powered by NewspaperDirect’s PressDisplay.com technology, PressReader provides access to over 1,900 full-content newspapers and magazines from 95 countries in 49 languages.
With every article, advertisement, crossword puzzle and cartoon presented in its original context, PressReader offers many of the same rich user interface and interactive features as PressDisplay.com. PressReader has the added convenience of allowing users to hold a publication directly in their hands and read it from cover to cover just as an in-print version. PressReader also provides popular features such as:
Flipping pages as in a real publication The ability to pan, zoom or rotate pages, articles and photos Navigating publications using thumbnails or table of contents Opening full articles in easy-to-read text views Listening to publications using on-demand audio Searching online across titles and selecting the titles for download
New users can try PressReader with seven complimentary issues, then either choose to subscribe through PressDisplay.com or will have a " pay-as-you go" option go through the platform's appropriate app store.
PressDisplay.com
PressDisplay Home PagePressDisplay.com is an online newspaper kiosk with over 1,900 publications, from 92 countries in 43 languages. PressDisplay.com allows users to view and interact with full replicas of publications using a generic Internet browser and includes interactive tables of content, foreign language translation, article blogging, email sharing, clickable URL’s, emails and phone numbers, search and media monitoring, alerts, bookmarks, text–to–voice conversion. It runs on PCs, Macs, Ultra-mobile PCs, TabletPCs, iPhones, Smart Phones, Blackberry and iPod Touch devices and eReaders, like the iRex DR 1000.
Customized versions of PressDisplay are available for libraries[1][2], hotels and corporations. It is also offered as a white-label solution (e.g. MSN UK PressDisplay)
Supported Devices
PressReader and PressDisplay.com can be run on all the current mobile devices including:
- BlackBerry PlayBook
- BlackBerry smartphones
- iPad
- iPhone
- iTouch
- Honeycomb
Online Products
SmartEdition
SmartEditionNewspaperDirect’s SmartEdition ePaper solution, powered by PressDisplay technology is the universal publishing platform for dozens of electronic editions, including e-xpresso, Times Online, Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Washington Post, New York Post e-Edition, Le Figaro en PDF, The Guardian and Observer, The Jerusalem Post, Bangkok Post and Canadian publications CanWest, Sun Media and Transcontinental, to name a few.
Reading Map TechnologySmartEdition includes NewspaperDirect’s proprietary Reading Map technology that allows publishers to analyze reading patterns throughout their publication, to gain insight into what elements of the publication are most, and least, read. This information is used to better understand the impact of editorial content, layout and advertising on reading behavior. Ad Value Map, which uses Reading Map technology, helps advertisers understand which pages in a newspaper are optimal for advertising based on reading behavior of users.
Print-On-Demand
Print On DemandNewspaperDirect's Print-On-Demand solution enables out-of-market newspapers to be printed in different types of locations around the globe. Print-On-Demand is powered by the ND PrintStation, which consists of a standard digital printer and a PC with NewspaperDirect’s subscription and printing management software. When connected to the Internet, the PrintStation downloads and prints a single or multiple copies of the newspapers available on the NewspaperDirect network.PrintStations are located at the offices of NewspaperDirect distributors, on cruise ships, in hotels, retail shops, libraries, corporate offices, yachts, marinas and conference centers and at major international events such as the G8 Summit, World Cup and the Olympic Games.
ND Press
ND PressND Press is a web-based Print-On-Demand solution that enables businesses to conveniently print newspapers on-site, using their existing in-house printers.
ND Press is offered as a subscription-based service with monthly, quarterly and annual plans providing a selection of print volumes. Upon subscribing, users download and activate a printing/offline reading application, PressReader, which works with ND Press through the NewspaperDirect global network to provide complete newspaper printing and reading functionality.
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References
- Swets Press Release (June 2007) Swets and NewspaperDirect extend their successful partnership
- ProQuest Press Release (Jan 2008) ProQuest To Distribute New Corporate PressDisplay
- Newspapers and Technology (Oct 2008) [1]
- iRex Technologies Press Release (Dec 2008) reality fulfils dreams of a Green Christmas
- The Star Online TV (June 2009) /New gadgets to get your news
- Cornell University Library (June 2009) PressDisplay
- Press Release (Sept 2009) NewspaperDirect and MSN UK Partner to Bring the World’s Largest Aggregated Newspaper and Magazine Portal to MSN UK Users
- SF Gate Press Release (Jan 2011) NPressReader for Android: On-Demand Delivery of 1,700 Daily Newspapers & Magazines to Android Handsets & Tablets
- Android Press Release (Feb 2011) ASUS Partners With NewspaperDirect to Power News Content for ASUS Line of Products
- SF Gate Press Release (Apr 2011) LiveTouch Broadcast Solutions Selects PressDisplay.com to Power Interactive On-Air Newspaper Solution
- iPhone World Press Release (May 2011) PressReader for iPad Keeps Budding Diplomats Abreast of National and Local Issues in Foreign Countries
- SF GatePress Release (July 2011) NewspaperDirect Releases Android Honeycomb Version of PressReader; World's Largest Digital Newsstand Delivers 1,800+ Daily Newspapers to Latest Android Tablets
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