Who says printed newspapers are outdated? We can make them just as much part of the digital era as any online news offering. For print to meet digital on a global scale, we only had to partner with NewspaperDirect, leader in multichannel newspaper and magazine distribution. With the global roll-out starting this week, we will soon be able to connect more than 2,000 printed newspapers in 95 countries to the digital world.

Using Kooaba’s Paperboy mobile app, readers can snap pictures of full pages or articles of interest in their favorite printed newspapers and share them immediately as fill PDFs via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail or SMS or store them for future reference on my.kooaba.com or Evernote. Rather convenient when you are reading a newspaper on the train, if you ask me. Also, there are no random newspaper cutouts flying around the house anymore.

But it’s not just about sharing a PDF of the article – with full text search capabilities, of course. Paperboy, available for iPhone and Android devices, also gives newspaper readers access to additional information like videos or related online content. So who still thinks that newspapers are only analogue?

How Paperboy works

Paperboy connects printed media to the digital world with one click: All the application’s powerful image recognition technology needs is a photo taken by a smartphone camera of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine. Paperboy then matches the photo to the images in Kooaba’s sizeable library of printed media or identifies that page or article from NewspaperDirect’s inventory of over 2,000 same-day, digital newspapers replicas. Users can then share, email or archive the electronic version on the go, anywhere, anytime or explore related information like videos, images or links to selected topics. Paperboy automatically finds URLs on pages of print publications. In some publications, exclusive Paperboy content is for pages with the Shutter icon.

Download the Paperboy app for free in the App store or Android Market.

Global Availability in 95 countries before the end of the year

In the first roll-out phase, the cooperation with NewspaperDirect makes newspaper content immediately available within Paperboy in Germany, Switzerland and Austria – for more than 75 additional titles. Among them the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), the Austrian Der Standard and Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel. More than 780 US, UK and Canadian newspapers will follow in November. Russian, Asian and other European readers, as well as readers in Australia, New Zealand and all other countries will be able to use the Paperboy app with their local newspapers later in the year.

Click here to view the current supported Newspapers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. For people not living in those countries we added some  additional newspapers for you to check out. One of them is the widely spread International Herald Tribune. Also USA Today and for our Japanese friends we have the Mainichi RT.

Visit the website at paperboytool.com for more information in general.