PressDisplay Adds Thirty New Newspaper Titles; 225 Titles Now Available Including the Globe and Mail, the Seattle Times, National Post, and Le Figaro

Business Wire, May 12, 2005

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- NewspaperDirect is pleased to announce that thirty new newspaper titles have joined PressDisplay.com, its market-leading online newspaper service, in the last six months. There are now 225 titles available on PressDisplay -- in 34 languages from over 55 countries.

Some of the major titles that have joined include Le Figaro (France), The Globe and Mail (Canada), Aamulehti (Finland), La Jornada (Mexico), The Gazette (Montreal), National Post (Canada), Irish Independent (Ireland), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), The Vancouver Sun (Canada), and The Seattle Times (USA). These titles are now part of the industry's leading digital newspaper service which includes: The Washington Post, The Australian, USA Today, China Daily, Daily Mirror and Die Zeit (Germany).

"The continuous addition of newspaper titles is clear recognition of PressDisplay's superior technology and its position as the industry's leading digital newspaper publishing service," says NewspaperDirect CEO, Alexander Kroogman. "Publishers view us as their key strategic partner to reach new markets."

Maintaining existing markets and reaching new ones is critical for newspaper publishers, as they develop strategies to counteract diminishing circulation. Making the original newspaper, with all its editorial and advertising content, available on PressDisplay sustains and further widens newspaper readership, increases advertising revenues and meets the criteria set out by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) and other audit bureaus.

About NewspaperDirect

Founded in 1999, NewspaperDirect (www.newspaperdirect.com), based in Vancouver, B.C, Canada, is the world leader in digital delivery of same-day newspapers from around the world. NewspaperDirect's PressDisplay.com leverages the company's extensive content base and leading edge technology to provide internet users with direct access to their favourite newspapers online. In addition to the consumer site, PressDisplay is packaged for the library, corporate and government sectors.

NewspaperDirect also operates a global network of over 400 print locations in more than 70 countries and, through its partner network, delivers printed newspapers to hotels, libraries, cruise ships, corporate offices, retail outlets and home subscribers.