Archive for January, 2007

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Q&A about: The PressDisplay Referral Program

January 31, 2007

In this post, I’ll share with you some answers to questions PressDisplay.com users asked about our referral program.  Feel free to suggest other questions for this post and we’ll do our best to answer them.  You might also want to read this previous post outlining the PressDisplay Referral Program.  Also, don’t forget to check out the help files on PressDisplay.com related to this area.

1. Do I need to sign an affiliate agreement to become part of the Referral Program?

No, you only need to be a registered user of PressDisplay to be automatically enrolled in the referral program. 

2. What additional features are you planning to help users share PressDisplay with others?

In the next few months we’ll be offering widgets/gadgets for people to add to their blogs or web sites, along with banner ads and text links.  We are also going to be offering gift certificates which you can purchase for friends and family.  Soon you will able to set up monitors for friends to introduce them to PressDisplay.com.  All you will need to provide is a keyword phrase that has meaning for your friend and their email address.  We’ll take care of the rest. 

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PressDisplay.com: First to Offer No-Cost Monitoring of Printed Newspapers

January 30, 2007

Hello everyone:

NewspaperDirect Inc. today announced that PressDisplay.com  now offers free media monitoring services for the print editions of more than 350 leading newspapers from around the world.

  • Quickly and easily set up monitors to track companies, advertisements, competitors, partners or clients in hundreds of international printed newspapers — at no cost.
  • Share relevant and timely news articles from around the world with friends, employees, clients or shareholders.
  • Instantly translate articles in up to 12 languages; make international news more accessible to employees in global companies.

Read all about it here.  And enjoy the short video below that shows you how monitors work.  And then try it for yourself with your company name or even  your favoriate celebrity or hot topic.  It’s fun and it’s free. 

Enjoy!

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NewspaperDirect teams with Metris Distribution Services

January 18, 2007

Hello everyone.

For our local friends in Canada, here’s some good news.  NewspaperDirect today announced a sales and distribution agreement with Metris Distribution Services Ltd.

Under this agreement, Metris, a Canadian distributor of major daily newspapers will market and deliver NewspaperDirect’s 400+ titles, from 65 countries, in 37 languages to home subscribers, businesses, hotels and retail outlets in Vancouver and Toronto, with plans to expand into Calgary.  Learn more…

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Share PressDisplay with your friends

January 17, 2007

I’ve been asked by some of our readers to share more tips and tricks on how to use all the cool features in PressDisplay.com, so I thought I’d start with article and page sharing.

Sharing stories and pages from PressDisplay is fun and very easy.  Say you are reading an article and want to send it to a friend – even a friend who doesn’t have a PressDisplay account.  If you want to send them the article in the page it appears, just click on the envelope icon on the toolbar below the article while you read it in graphics view.

Sharing articles in PressDisplay

PressDisplay will create an email dialogue which includes your email address, the title of the article and issue of the paper in the subject line.  It will also include a thumbnail of the page of the paper where the article is located, a link to the article and room for you to enter comments. 

Email sharing

No cutting and pasting…you don’t even have to open you own email system.  Just enter your friend’s email address (or multiple friends’ emails separated by commas), type your message and click [Send].   PressDisplay takes care of everything for you.

If you want to send just the article, then read it in text view (by clicking on the title of the article) and then click the envelope icon at the top toolbar.

Sharing articles through email

When your friend receives the email from you

 article sharing

they just click on the embedded link or thumbnail to open PressDisplay and read the article for free. They don’t even need to register.  Like I said…it’s easy and your friends get to read articles for free.

And although we all know it is better to give than to receive – we also know that receiving isn’t so bad either and so we want to share with you too.  If your friend decides to subscribe to PressDisplay as a result of you sharing an article, you automatically get a 10-15% commission for up to three years on their subscription! 

So why not give it a try?  Share stories with clients – it’s a good excuse to “touch them”.  Family and friends will enjoy hearing from you and most of what you want to say is probably in the article – so your message in the email can be short and sweet :)

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Will e-ink be fad or fade for newspapers?

January 4, 2007

Hi everyone

If you recall, I did a post on Dec 19th about the future of e-ink and told you that an article on the subject (by Alex Gruntsev, our VP of Business Development) will be published in January’s Newspapers and Technology magazine.  Well, I’m happy to announce that the article is published.  Check out “Will e-ink be fad or fade for newspapers?” and let me know what you think!

Posted in Company News, E-Ink, Hot Topics, In The News, Industry Talk, New Media, NewspaperDirect, What Do YOU think?, technology | 2 Comments »

PressDisplay Now Available to EBSCO Customers Through Distribution Agreement with NewspaperDirect

January 3, 2007

Hello everyone
Some more good news to share with you. NewspaperDirect™ has signed a distribution agreement with EBSCO Information Services, the leading service provider for e-journal, e-journal and e-book package and print subscriptions, plus a suite of e-resource management tools, full-text and secondary databases and related services for all types of libraries and research organizations. Under the agreement, EMpact Sales™ (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, will represent NewspaperDirect’s PressDisplay™ digital newspaper delivery solution to libraries, corporations and other organizations in parts of Asia, Europe and Brazil.

“We are pleased to be representing PressDisplay from NewspaperDirect in selected areas of the world,” said Sid McNeal Jr., Vice President and General Manager, EMpact. “This product is an extremely innovative, yet easy-to-use way to have access to a selection of the world’s newspapers, in a web experience that library patrons will greatly enjoy.”

Read the full release here.

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Who needs newspapers? We all do!

January 2, 2007

Happy New Year everyone!

I thought I’d start the year off with a story from the Rome News-Tribune by media critic, Jason Salzman.

I thought the title “Newspapers are the life’s blood that Internet parasites suck on” was compelling enough to make me read further.  And, I’m glad I did.

I think he makes a good argument for why we all need to continue to support newspapers and why they should thrive in the future.

Of course, all of us who are addicted to PressDisplay, love newspapers, and many of us also like to read blogs that comment on newspaper articles.

So my perfect world is a nice combination of both traditional media and the blogging community, where together they provide readers with best of journalism with the broadest in commentary from all parts of the globe.

What do you think?

Newspapers are the life’s blood that Internet parasites suck on

Rome News-Tribune
30 Dec 2006

By JASON SALZMAN Guest ColumnistMORE AND MORE of us are skipping the daily newspaper and getting information from blogs, websites and entertainment TV. The newspapers’ websites are more and more popular, but website surfers don’t buy subscriptions… read more…

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