Pressmart inks pact with US newspaper body

Stepping up its business growth plans in the US digital publishing market, Pressmart India, a Hyderabad-based digital publishing technology provider, on Monday signed an agreement with Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA).

SNA, the only non-profit, professional trade association which supports the suburban and community newspaper industry through leadership, education, promotion and research in North America, represents over 2,000 newspapers with a circulation of more than 22 million.

Pressmart will provide SNA's members a digital, same-as-print electronic edition of their monthly association newspaper ""Suburban Publisher.

In a joint press release today, Al Cupo, SNA vice-president (operations), said, "The Pressmart solution has the capability to provide all SNA members' access to Suburban Publisher on multiple digital distribution channels including e-editions, RSS (really simple syndication) feeds and audio podcasts (a mobile device solution) and e-archives."