PressReader is a digital newspaper distribution and publishing operator with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and offices in New York, London, Vienna and Düsseldorf. The parent company NewspaperDirect Inc. underwent a rebrand in November 2013, and is doing business as PressReader.
Founded in 1999, NewspaperDirect has agreements with over 6,300 newspaper and magazine publishers from 100 countries to market, sell and/or print their publications around the world and over the internet.
Print-On-Demand is the company's digital newspaper printing network, with over 100 licensed partners, at more than 1,200 print locations in 105 countries.
Same-day editions of international publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, The Times, Le Figaro, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Daily Mail, El País, South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Il Giornale are available to tourist destinations, corporate offices, retail outlets, research facilities, home subscribers, events and online.
In 2005, NewspaperDirect introduced its two digital platforms, PressDisplay.com (an online newspaper kiosk) and SmartEdition (a publishing platform for electronic editions of newspapers and magazines). PressDisplay was subsequently merged to PressReader.