enTourage eDGe™ Store

Dual-screen display offers users an engaging, interactive read of their favorite publications on newest entrant to the handheld device market

ABU DHABI, March 10, 2010: NewspaperDirect Inc., the world leader in multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution is bringing the world’s largest online kiosk of full-content newspapers and magazines to the enTourage eDGe™.

Starting today, PressDisplay.com subscribers can download their choice of more than 1,500 titles to the enTourage eDGe, over their wireless network or USB, and read them cover to cover, including: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Guardian, Daily Mail, International Herald Tribune, Irish Independent, Le Figaro, The Australian, New Zealand Herald, Gazeta Wyborcza, Marca, Bangkok Post, and Kommersant, to name just a few.

“Partnering with NewspaperDirect allows us to provide our customers with a robust catalogue of US and international newspapers, satisfying their media consumption needs even further,” said Asghar Mostafa, CEO of enTourage Systems. “The enTourage eDGe is an ideal platform for NewspaperDirect fans, allowing them to engage content when on the move like never before.”

Some users of the enTourage eDGe may be experiencing difficulty with certain power-saving functions of their devices. If your unit doesn’t enter stand-by mode when you close it or when idle (as set in device preferences), keep an eye out for our software update coming next week. The update will fix these power-saving capabilities and smooth out a few other known software issues so your enTourage eDGe is running at its best.

At the same time as our first customers were powering up their brand new enTourage eDGes, a number of selected reviewers were also. Kim Bradford of Laptop Magazine was one of the first to write up her reactions to the experience. You can read her article here, and watch the video below.

enTourage Systems Inc. will be exhibiting at the Campus Market Expo (CAMEX) at the Orlando Convention Center on March 13th through the 15th. We’ll be in booth 1686. If you’re in the area, stop in and see us. Learn more about the Expo at www.camex.org.

Steve Kolowich of USAToday.com wrote about the latest college studies of e-readers and found a similar thread in all the feedback. He writes, “If one clear consensus emerged from the studies that have been finalized at Princeton University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, it is this: For students who were given the Kindle DX and tried to use it for coursework, the inability to easily highlight text was the biggest lowlight of the experience.”

You can read the entire article here.

You can view the new enTourage eDGe tutorial videos here to see just some of the possibilities for students, teachers, and everyone else with a need to read, write, and surf (and highlight).

David Lagesse of US News and World Report analyzes the new multitasking e-readers in his article on February 10th. You can read the article here.

We’ve got some great videos ready to help users get started with their enTourage eDGe’s. Check this one out.

We’ll add more videos soon. Very special thanks to our friends at Pixel Brothers who are the best media production team to work with!