Newspaperdirect
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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.
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.
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 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, hotels and corporations. It is also offered as a white-label solution (e.g. MSN UK PressDisplay)
NewspaperDirect’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.
SmartEdition 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.
NewspaperDirect'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 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.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
distribution and publishing operator with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and offices in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
. 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.
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 Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, the International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...
, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Le Figaro
Le Figaro
Le Figaro is a French daily newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris. It is one of three French newspapers of record, with Le Monde and Libération, and is the oldest newspaper in France. It is also the second-largest national newspaper in France after Le Parisien and before Le Monde, but...
, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is a national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .F.A.Z...
, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
, El Pais, South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post , together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is an English-language Hong Kong newspaper, published by the SCMP Group with a circulation of 104,000....
, The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
, and Il Giornale
Il Giornale
il Giornale is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan, Italy.-History:The newspaper was planned in 1972 by the journalist Indro Montanelli, together with the colleague Enzo Bettiza, after some disagreements with the new pro-left editorial line adopted by the newspaper Corriere della Sera,...
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.
PressReader
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
IPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
Touch devices and eReaders, like the iRex DR 1000.
Customized versions of PressDisplay are available for libraries, 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
SmartEdition
Expresso (Portuguese newspaper)
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, Times Online, Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, New York Post e-Edition, Le Figaro en PDF, The Guardian and Observer, The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on December 1, 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. The daily readership numbers do not approach those of the major Hebrew newspapers....
, Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post is a broadsheet, English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. The first issue was sold on August 1, 1946. It had four pages and cost 1 baht, a considerable amount at the time....
and Canadian publications CanWest, Sun Media
Sun Media
Sun Media Corporation is the owner of several widely read tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49 percent owner of Sun News Network...
and Transcontinental
Transcontinental
The fourth largest print media group in Canada, with more than 3,000 employees and annual revenues of $608 million in 2010, TC. Transcontinental reaches, through its multiplatform offering, over 18 million consumers across Canada...
, to name a few.
Print-On-Demand
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
.
ND Press
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.