Now, millions of MSN UK users will be able to enjoy anywhere/anytime access to their favorite publications online, offline, on mobile devices and the latest eReaders.

MSN UK News offers a version of PressDisplay.com (MSN PressDisplay) in a sophisticated modular design. It will include PressDisplay’s advanced digital features and all its 1,100+ digital replicas of the world’s premier publications, including: The Guardian, Daily Mail, and more than 40 other UK papers, plus The Washington Post, New York Post, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Australian, Gazeta Wyborcza, Corriere della Sera, Bangkok Post and Kommersant to name just a few.

We are very excited about this partnership and so are the folks at MSN!

“We are thrilled to be partnering with NewspaperDirect and delivering great content from the world’s newspapers, in its original state to our UK user base”, comments Peter Bale, Executive Producer, MSN. “Together we have been able to deliver innovative features which give consumers access to a huge number of publications on the great NewspaperDirect interface. At a time when the survival of newspapers is being questioned we see this as a great outlet for newspaper content”.

NewspaperDirect has enjoyed a long standing partnership with Microsoft and is very pleased to take the relationship to the next level by offering offer Microsoft’s MSN UK users the wealth of aggregated content that PressDisplay has to offer. Meanwhile our publishing partners can continue to enjoy complete transparency, knowing that with MSN PressDisplay, they retain control over their content and are properly compensated for the use of it.

It’s a win-win-win-win for MSN UK users – MSN UK – PressDisplay publishers – NewspaperDirect! I love starting the week off on a high note!

Gayle

View official press release here.

Hello everyone

As promised, here is the recorded webinar, Igor Smirnoff of NewspaperDirect did with the Microsoft Mobile PC team on using PressDisplay.com and PressReader on mobile PC’s.   Just click on the slide below to watch and listen to this very interesting seminar.

Enjoy!

Gayle

Tablet and Mobile PC applications continue to evolve as people seek new ways to be productive anywhere and at anytime. The Microsoft Mobile PC team is pleased to announce a series of web seminars which showcase solutions for this growing market.

We invite you to tune in to a special ½ hour web seminar on May 14, 2007 at 10:00 PST, where Microsoft Corporation and NewspaperDirect will showcase NewspaperDirect’s flagship digital newspaper solutions which have been optimized for Mobile PC’s:

• PressDisplay.com (the largest online newspaper kiosk in the world)

• PressReader (the only newspaper reader which supports hundreds of publications with just one software download)

Learn how you can enjoy instant access to hundreds of full content digital newspaper replicas from 70 countries in 37 languages and experience a friendly, interactive and consistent “newspaper look and feel”, with tables of content, foreign language translation capabilities, cross-title searching, article blogging and sharing, clickable URL’s, emails and phone numbers and text–to–voice conversion application.

To join the web cast, on the day of the event, please click here 15 minutes before the seminar begins. (No registration is required. For further information, please see instructions at bottom of this posting)

We look forward to seeing you there!

If you can’t make the event, don’t worry, we will have a link to a recorded version for you to view at your leisure shortly after the event.  Just check back on the PressDisplay Blog in a few days.

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To view the Web seminar you will need:
• A computer with access to the Internet to view the visual portion of the event.
• A functioning sound card and speakers or headphones for your PC.
• Windows Media Player 9 (WMP 9).
• A compatible computer configuration.

To test your computer:
• Click here
• Install and run Live Meeting software if prompted to do so.
• You should see a Live Meeting console with 3 revolving slides. If you are able to see all three slides your test is successful. If you are not able to see the slides or if your system is stalled, please contact Event Support at 1-800-893-8779 or (international callers) at 1-971-544-3222. You may also send e-mail to: eventsup@microsoft.com.