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NewspaperDirect Launches Hotel PressDisplay.com

Hotel PressDisplay.com is the ‘green’ way to serve guests hundreds of newspaper titles from around the world, fresh every day

LONDON, UK – February 18, 2008: (HOSTEC Booth H1002) NewspaperDirect, the world leader in multi-channel newspaper content distribution, has launched Hotel PressDisplay.com (http://hotel.pressdisplay.com). Hotel PressDisplay.com brings more than 550 newspapers and magazines from 72 countries and in 37 languages to the laptops of hotel guests. Using the hotel’s high speed internet service, Hotel PressDisplay.com can be configured to serve guest laptops in-room or in the common areas of the hotel property. In most cases, guests will be able to view a digital facsimile of any newspaper in the system before it has even arrived at public newsstands.

Hotel PressDisplay.com is the latest addition to NewspaperDirect’s PressDisplay.com product family, which attracts millions of online consumers and corporate customers every day, along with patrons from more than 600 libraries worldwide. It is also the technology behind NewspaperDirect’s SmartEdition ePaper solution that powers dozens of the world’s leading publishers, including CanWest, New York Post, Washington Post, Le Figaro, Daily Telegraph, and many other prominent newspapers.

Hotel PressDisplay.com is designed for hoteliers looking to offer their guests superior service and ‘green’ amenities. Besides being the environmentally friendly alternative to printed newspapers, Hotel PressDisplay.com enhances the newspaper experience for readers by offering a familiar look and feel, easy-to-use navigation tools, powerful keyword searching, article sharing through email and blogs, translation into up to 12 languages, audio capabilities, and integration with social media such as Facebook, Digg and Del.icio.us.

“Hotel PressDisplay.com enables hoteliers to reduce the cost and wastage of locally delivered newspapers while providing guests with a superior newspaper reading experience,” said Richard Miller, NewspaperDirect’s vice president, sales and marketing. “Guests can read any newspaper they want on their laptops and can even download them to read while in transit to their next destination. Hotel PressDisplay.com is the ‘green’ newspaper solution for hotels that cater to the tech-savvy mobile professional.”

Hotel PressDisplay.com is available to both hotels and hotel Internet service providers. Subscription packages offer simultaneous user licenses that enable multiple guests to share the service 24 hours a day.

Hotel PressDisplay.com is also currently deployed as the digital newspaper component of Swisscom Hospitality Service’s premium Internet service, Room 2.0. Today, it is available in over 1,100 properties throughout Europe, with deployment planned in all 2,300 of Swisscom’s serviced properties.


About NewspaperDirect Inc.

Founded in 1999, NewspaperDirect Inc. is the world leader in multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization. NewspaperDirect offers more than 600 newspaper and magazine titles through a global network of more than 1,200 print locations in 105 countries, delivering them to hotels, libraries, cruise ships, corporate offices, retail outlets, home subscribers, and Web browsers everywhere.

The company also leverages its extensive content base and leading-edge technology to offer PressDisplay.com, the largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk in the world. PressDisplay.com is the environmentally-friendly alternative to printed newspapers, providing consumers, corporations, libraries and hotels instant access to hundreds of publications from around the world, on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry and other smartphones.

NewspaperDirect’s SmartEdition ePaper solution, powered by PressDisplay technology, fits every publisher’s needs with zero investment and zero operational cost. With SmartEdition, a publisher’s subscribers benefit from anywhere/anytime access to current and back issues of their publications, while enjoying premium digital features such as voice, translation, sharing, blogging and advanced searching.

The Company's ND Press print-on-demand service enables businesses to conveniently download and print hundreds of national and international titles on-site using their existing in-house equipment.

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Contact: Tim Cox | ZingPR, tim@zingpr.com, +1-650-369-7784


Key Benefits of Hotel PressDisplay™
Key Benefits of Hotel PressDisplay™
Hotel PressDisplay’s comprehensive newspaper solution enables guests to browse, view and read same-day newspapers from around the world on their laptops or mobile devices. Hotel PressDisplay displays full-color newspapers in their original format, complete with the editorials, columns, advertisements, comics, classifieds and other content found in the familiar print edition. This innovative service, proven in the library and publishing industries, provides hoteliers with an enhancement to their guest amenities in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Using the in-room high-speed internet connection, users can simply click on the Hotel PressDisplay icon from the landing page to access the world’s leading and largest online newspaper kiosk. From Hotel PressDisplay’s innovative portal page, which provides the day’s headlines from key newspapers, users can easily jump to read the stories that interest them, in the newspapers they usually read at home.

For hotels with WiFi in lobbies, conference areas and other public areas, hotel guests can access Hotel Press Display on their laptops, or on other WiFi- enabled mobile devices, including Windows Mobile units and Apple iPhones. This enables guests to read their daily newspapers on-screen while they are by the pool, or at one of your property’s restaurants.

Diversified Newspaper Selection

Hotel PressDisplay is the single largest provider of same-day digital newspapers for the hospitality industry. With access to over 600 different newspapers titles from over 75 countries in over 36 languages, users can keep up to date and read their favorite newspapers while staying at your hotel.

Download Newspapers for Off-Property Reading

Hotel PressDisplay enables guests to download digital editions of their newspapers onto their laptops, and keep them accessible for seven days. This means that guests can download newspapers at your hotel and read them while en route to their next destination.

Advanced Features for Quick Searches and Easy Reading

Hotel PressDisplay is easy to use and has several advanced features enabling users to easily navigate through their favorite newspapers. From the portal page, which dynamically highlights key articles, users can link to different titles from around the world, and then navigate an edition by “flipping” the pages. Newspaper articles are read by zooming into the article and enlarging it up to five times its original size, or by reading it in text version. Users can also find their news by searching topics across all titles or in a single edition.

Jump to Specific Articles Using the Table of Contents

With Hotel PressDisplay, users can save time by using the Table of Contents to quickly locate and jump to specific articles. This feature provides a detailed listing of each section and a link to each article that is located within the specific sections.

Link To and Share Articles

With Hotel PressDisplay, users can link from one article to another of similar content, and can print the specific articles of their choice. Users can also share their favorite articles with their friends, family and colleagues by simply clicking on the “email” icon while reading the article in the text view.

Translate Articles into Multiple Languages

Hotel PressDisplay’s innovative technology permits users to translate articles in the newspaper in up to 12 different languages.

"Listen" to Articles Using Newspaper Radio

Using Hotel PressDisplay’s Interactive Newspaper Radio, users will be able to multitask as they get ready for the day by having their favorite newspapers read to them by their PC.


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