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Read Newspapers Another surprise was their link to Press Display, an online Newspaper Stand. Press Display offers online newspapers from around the world. Newspapers are not free of course. Readers can buy one issue or subcribe monthly. Single issues cost $2.75. A better deal and probably the best option is to subscribe to a monthly plan. The Economy play is $9.95 per month and includeds 31 issues, 7 days back issues and 200 book marks. For what I can tell these issues can be any papers that you want. So you are not stuck with just one paper. The other plans are quite expensive starting at $29.95 per month and topping off at $199.95 monthly. No software is needed if you plan to only view your papers online. Just open your browser and go directly to their site and log in. If you want to download your issues then you will need to download their reader software which is free. Currently they support, Win 2000/XP/Vista, Mobile Devices such as PDAs and Smartphones, and Mac OS X. Unfortunately I saw nothing on Palm OS, so I don’t know if Palm’s Browser is supported for downloads. The only browsers I saw that they support are Win IE, Firefox, and, Netscape. You may be able to access through their RSS feeds. Plans are in the works for Safari support, so that’s good news for iphone users. It seems like they have a good variety of newspapers and offer the full issue to include ads, instead of just selected articles. I plan to try this out by buying one issue to see how it goes and report back here. |
September 2nd, 2007 | 
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E-book Impressions looks *very* expensive? Am I missing something?
DeMille: Cathedral 6.99 vs. Fictionwise 4.99
Patterson: Judge & Jury: 17.41 vs. Fictionwise 6.99 (but formerly 17)
(plus FictionWise is even cheaper if you are a Club member).
Jorgen,
Yes they are on the expensive side. I think I would only buy from them if they were the only one that carried a book I wanted. I listed the site, just so people could check it out for their needs. It’s just another site that people can buy e-books. What I did like was their link to the online newspapers, which really isn’t cheap either.