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Travel Tech: Newspaper Fix
Source: The Washington Post Travel
CoGo reported in March on a new service that allows travelers to print out same-day versions of their favorite newspapers from kiosks in hotels and airports in more than 100 countries. The service, PEPC Worldwide, has competition. Another upstart called NewspaperDirect also supplies same-day editions of more than 170 newspapers around the world, though they keep the kiosks out of sight. Participating hotels, airlines and newsstands print out the newspapers on their premises and then deliver them to your hotel room, vacation house or cabin (cruise lines like Carnival and Holland America receive the latest editions via satellite).
For about $3 to $5, NewspaperDirect provides a high-resolution, blackand-white printout on 12-by-16-inch paper that faithfully reproduces the edition you'd buy at home. A recent NewspaperDirect version of The Post, for example, contained all the stories appearing in that day's standard print edition and local ads and movie listings that remind you of home. The individual publishers, however, decide what content to include, and thus classified sections, Sunday magazines and special supplements are sometimes missing.
The service is also available at several D.C. hotels and newsstands.
Info: www.newspaperdirect.com.
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