Mobile: PressDisplay Now iPhone Capable + Month of Free Access for All iPhone Users

A very cool way to use and demo iPhone. Btw, if PressDisplay/NewspaperDirect sounds familiar, it should. We checked and ResourceShelf has been posting about this company and the cool and always growing list of services they provide for nearly six years.

PressDisplay.com and its parent, NewspapersDirect, are home to over 550 newspapers from 76 countries in 37 languages.

PressDisplay offers same day, full-text, full image versions of these papers. In other words, download an exact replica of what you would see/view/read if you held the actually newspaper in your hands.

For the next month, a special promotion will offer FREE access to the database for all iPhone users. ResourceShelf friend and search guru, Barry Schwartz, has posted several images of PressDisplay via iPhone here.

From the announcement:

Phone users can point their Safari browser to http://www.pressdisplay.com to enjoy many of the biggest newspaper titles from the United States — including The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Post, plus hundreds of international newspapers such as The Daily Mail, The Wall Street Journal Europe and all 11 CanWest publications.

Newspapers PressDisplay are presented in their original layout, and the iPhone’s unique multi-touch gestures and auto-rotate feature let users easily zoom in to view any article or photo in stunning clarity…Mobile PressDisplay has been optimized for the iPhone, making it extremely easy to browse and read newspapers with section listings, zoom and pan, page flipping, auto-jumps that link articles spanning different pages, text or graphics views, bookmarks, search, monitors and audio support.

To access Mobile PressDisplay, simply enter http://www.pressdisplay.com into your mobile browser. Various pricing programs exist but you can get limited access (All members may read 2 articles from any issue (up to 7 days back issues*) for free.)
Note: We accessed PressDisplay using a Treo 700P without any problems.

These is also a mobile client app for mobile devices running Windows along with other client apps. RSS feeds are also available by country and publication.
* Restrictions do apply.