Digital Newspapers are increasingly becoming popular than the printed newspapers and rightly so as individuals these days are more connected to the online world clinging on to their Smartphones and Tablets throughout the day.
These gadgets provide the readers thousand more options at their hand which the real world falls shorts at. So why not also prefer digital reading when it only has more advantages.
PressReader is a classic example of why people are opting for digital over physical/printed.
PressReader is the largest digital newspaper kiosk app for iOS, including The New iPad (Retina Display supported), Android, BlackBerry, Win7 Slate PCs and WP7, eReaders that lets you download, and read the world's most popular full-content newspapers on these devices, allowing you to read them even when you’re offline.
It is the only app that offers you complete digital replicas of your favorite publications, often before the printed editions hit the newsstands. It allows you to read it from cover to cover, just the way the title was printed — with no compromises in quality or content.
You can read a growing list of over 2,100 full-content newspapers from 96 countries in 54 languages available through the world's largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk PressDisplay.com. For news technology and mobile device fanatics, this is hard to beat.
Not only can you search, share and discuss articles from thousands of titles, the publications you access via PressReader are enhanced with interactive features such as clickable URLs, telephone numbers, email addresses and "continued on page…" links.
Features:
· Its innovative horizontal reading stream keeps you hooked on.
· You get the feel of reading a real publication when you flip pages.
· You can set up an automated subscription to your favorite titles
· Pan, zoom or rotate pages, articles and photos and view in stunning clarity.
· Easily navigate publications using thumbnails or tables of contents
· Open full articles in easy-to-read text view
· Sit back and listen to the publication using on-demand audio
· Search online across titles and select the title you wish to download
· Share articles by email, Twitter and Facebook.
Newspapers from around the World can be found on the web -:-Here.
Some of the world's most popular publications on the App include:
- The Washington Post
- USA Today
- New York Post
- International Herald Tribune
- Globe and Mail
- National Post
- Irish Independent
- Irish Times
- Daily Mail
- The Guardian
- The Australian
- Deggendorfer Zeitung
- Il Giornale
- La Gazzetta dello Sport
- La Stampa
- Bangkok Post.
Because the pages are scanned, they look terrific, and you can zoom and scroll as needed to get the view you want. There's also a text-to-speech option--great for eyesight-challenged readers.
The version 3 adds a feature called SmartFlow, which converts a paper's contents to something more akin to Flipboard where you are offered copy, print, and share features.
The application itself is free on iOS for iPad and iPhone as well as free on Android for smartphones and tablets . Once you’re in, you’ll get seven issues of a few popular newspapers for free, and subscriptions cost you $29.95 per month for unlimited access. Alternately, you can pay 99 cents per download.
The App was awarded the Best App Ever (best newspaper app) beating out The Daily, Flipboard, Guardian iPad Edition, NY Times, USA TODAY, and The Wall Street Journal Mobile.
“We are committed to continually innovating to exceed the expectations of our readers and publishing partners. PressReader 3.0 with SmartFlow technology is just one step in our journey to an unparalleled reading experience for newspapers and magazines. W’ere giving readers what they want- the best news-reading experience on the iPhone and iPad. I am looking forward to offering that same experience on every platform we support in the very near future,” said Alex Kroogman, CEO of NewspaperDirect.
You owe it to yourself to check out PressReader.
