[Asis-l] NewspaperDirect Launches PressReader for Smartphones

[gerrymck]

Colleagues/

News About A New Mobile News Function [:-)

/Gerry

NewspaperDirect, Inc., a provider of multichannel newspaper and
magazine content distribution and monetization, has launched iPhone
and BlackBerry versions of its PressReader application.

The move significantly expands the audience of full-content newspapers
and magazines for NewspaperDirect's publishing partners, and it lets
millions of owners of the two most popular smartphones download their
favorite daily read from a selection of more than 1,300 newspapers and
magazines available on PressDisplay.com, an online newspaper kiosk.
The new PressReader applications are free and available for immediate
download from Apple's iTunes App Store] and RIM's BlackBerry App
World].

PressReader lets users view offline the hundreds of publications
available on PressDisplay.com, in a convenient, portable format.
PressReader presents publications as full-content digital replicas in
their original layout. Every article, advertisement, crossword puzzle,
and cartoon is presented in its original context in the paper; users
have the ability to instantly zoom in on any element. PressReader
offers rich-graphics or text-only viewing options, an interactive
table of contents, cross-title searching, sharing of articles, and
live, clickable elements such as URLs, telephone numbers, email
addresses, and hyperlinks to other articles.

Links To Appropriate Links And Specific Press Releases Available At

[ http://bit.ly/3B6bUa  ]

!!! Thanks To InfoToday NewsBreaks For The HeadsUp !!!

EnJOY

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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