So Cool! PressDisplay for the iPhone and Blackberry is Here
I've noticed more and more libraries offering access to PressDisplay (part of NewspaperDirect) to their users. According to the company over 2500 libraries are subscibers.
If you've never seen it, it's one cool database and eReader. It allows users to search and/or browse newspaper and magazine content (over a thousand newspapers on their publication day) and then read the material online In addition, users see the content the same way it's presented in the paper. Same fonts, same pictures (color) and always of use charts and graphs. Other features include interactive tables of content, full graphics and text views, foreign language translation, text to speech audio, and many other features.
PressDisplay has several pricing plans including one (for personal use) that's free and allows you to view two articles each day and unlimited access to the front page of over 1000+ newspapers and magazines. Institutional customers can choose corporate or professional plans. To learn more, take a look at this multimedia tutorial. It provides a good overview of many features and this list of the papers printed on-demand (another part of NewsPaperDirect or online).
But there is more. Two days ago, NewspaperDirect/PressDisplay introduced an iPhone/iTouch app along with a Blackberry app.
+ The iPhone/iToucj app is free to download
+ Includes speech to text. Have the paper read to you
For the month of November, developer PressDisplay is offering seven free editions of any paper--basically, a chance to give the app a test-drive (test-read?).
After that, each paper will cost you 99 cents--about what you'd pay if you picked it up off the newsstand.
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If you're a voracious reader, you can sign up for one of two PressDisplay subscriptions: $9.95 monthly for 31 credits (one credit equals one issue, in most cases), or $29.95 monthly for unlimited content.
Those are the same subscription rates as the online version. We need to find out if subscribing to one service (iPhone) also gives you access to the other (online). My hunch is no, you would need to have two subscriptions.
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