Newspaper Direct, the folks behind the popular application for reading your favorite newspapers, will be a part of the Blackberry Playbook soon. When RIM releases their next firmware update it will come installed on your unit. You can gain access to 1,900 different papers from many different countries on a subscription basis. Vancouver Sun, New York Times, and all the ones you want to read are currently available. The app is already available for the Playbook on the sparsely populated App World. It’s free, so check it out.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.