Reading newsPAPERS from across world
NewspaperDirect, a company that prints 11x17 copies of newspapers around the world, launched a new feature on Dec. 15 - PressDisplay.com - which makes 160 papers available to individual subscribers in 41 countries.Individuals can subscribe to one or more newspapers on PressDisplay and have them delivered to their computers. You can't print them out, but you can navigate through the full newspaper on screen, page by page or section by section.
Subscription prices range from $9.95 to $29.95 a month, depending on how many newspapers you would like to read. For $9.95 you get full access to 30 papers, and for $29.95 fee you get to 100 newspapers a month.
This subscription plan is great for people who want to read multiple papers -- unlike its competitor, NewsStand.com, which has individual subscription fees and term lengths for each paper.
But L.A. Times media critic David Shaw says the navigation tools aren't as slick as those of competitor NewsStand. "If you're reading a Page 1 story on your screen on NewsStand, for example, and you come to the line at the bottom that says, 'Continued on Page 18,' you just click on '18,' and you're immediately taken to that page," he says. "PressDisplay is working on a similar capability but hasn't developed it yet. For now, users wanting to 'jump' from one page to another either have to scroll through the page numbers on the right hand side of the screen or click on a 'thumbnails' button on the left side of the screen that shows all the pages; then you click on the desired page."
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