After recently announcing support for the Sony and Kindle e-reader devices, NewspaperDirect has announced that PressDisplay.com is available for Android mobiles. PressDisplay.com subscribers can now point the web browser on their Android phone to www.pressdisplay.com and enjoy any of the more than 1,400 local, national and international titles currently available on the companys online newspaper and magazine kiosk.
PressDisplay.com has been optimized for Android, making it easy to browse and read the full publication. Navigational controls and gestures such as tables of contents with sections, zoom and pan, and page scrolling are supported. Other features include full graphics and text views, auto-jumps that link articles spanning different pages, cross-title search, article sharing, commenting, text-to-speech, and access to back issues.
NewspaperDirect says that PressDisplay.com is popular with consumers who want access to multiple news sources, and corporate customers who need to monitor printed media for business-critical news. With more than 1,400 full-content digital replicas of newspapers and magazines from 93 countries in 44 languages, the website is also the standard in more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. Some of the titles available on PressDisplay include The Washington Post, USA Today, Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Daily Mail, Irish Independent, LEquipe, Il Giornale, Iltalehti, Bangkok Post, Kommersant, and De Volkskrant.
We believe in giving readers what they want: their favorite publications, in their entirety, presented in a familiar, intuitive format, wherever readers are, and on whichever device they prefer, says NewspaperDirect CEO, Alex Kroogman. And, in addition to providing the broadest range of distribution choices for our customers, we offer a proven paid content business model to our publishers, at no operational cost to them.