Zinio
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Zinio is a consumer-targeted digital and interactive publishing products and services company, which provides sales, marketing and distribution of all printed material including: popular magazines, non-fiction books, text books, catalogs, newsletters, album inserts and research, in digital format for publishers and advertisers throughout its multi-channel content network. On behalf of more than 350 publishers, Zinio delivers over 1,500 top magazine titles worldwide.
Zinio provides consumer and trade publishers with a way to distribute and sell their printed publications digitally, to be read online, offline or accessed via various mobile devices. Zinio also offers marketing services and hosts various newsstands and bookstores to sell publications on behalf of publishers, in 23 locales and 13 languages. Additionally, Zinio enables publishers to create dynamic and interactive versions of their publications, of which VIVmag is an example.
Online and/or offline reader programs are required to access the magazines, which utilize a combination of technology licensed from Adobe and Contentguard. There are DRM protections embedded in the files. When accessing a page previously viewed in a session, the page loads much faster than the initial view.
Zinio provides a feasible offline solution for Mac and Microsoft Windows, with a good selection of consumer and trade publications, including categories such as: Art & Photography, Boating & Aviation, Business & Finance, Cars & Bikes, Computers & Tech, Electronics & Audio, Entertainment, Family & Parenting, Fashion & Style, Food & Cooking, Gay & Lesbian, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, Luxury, Mature, Men's Interest, Music, News, Science & Nature, Special Interest, Sports & Leisure, Teen, Travel & Regional and Women's Interest.
The consumer publications are available globally at Zinio.com[1], textbooks are available at Textbooks.Zinio.com [2], and adult magazines are available at UndercoverMags.com[3], which contains magazines, images and videos that are sexually explicit in nature. Zinio magazines leave a pale gray watermark on printed pages as a method of copy protection. Zinio has confirmed that it is developing a fully functional iPhone application, with a free alpha version available, but has not provided a release date.
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Zinio has offices in San Francisco and New York with several franchisees worldwide. The company is privately held by Gilvest LP, an investment entity owned by entrepreneur and renowned businessman David H. Gilmour (Fiji Water, Barrick Gold, South Pacific Hotel Corporation).
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Major publishing partners in North America include: Alpha Media, Bonnier, Hachette Filipacchi, Harvard Common Press, Hearst, IDG, Mariah Media, Inc., Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, McGraw-Hill, Rough Guides Ltd (distributed through Penguin Group), Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Rogers Publishing Limited, Source Interlink Media, The Economist, Transcontinental, Wiley and Ziff Davis.
Major magazine titles in North America include: American Photo, BusinessWeek, Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, ESPN The Magazine, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, Men’s Journal, Metropolitan Home, Outside, Parenting, PC Mag, Penthouse, Hustler, Playboy, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Road & Track, Saveur, Seventeen, The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, and Woman’s Day, as well as newly founded GAZELLAND MAGAZINE, among hundreds of others. Major books include Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook and SUPERCARS: The Road & Track Guide to Cars of Exceptional Speed, Power and Beauty.
Major international publishing partners include: 1633 SA (France), Adtech Solutions (Colombia), Attica Publications (Greece), Bloque de Armas (Venezuela), Bränd Kirjastused (Estonia), Editorial Conejito (Mexico), Grupo Q (Argentina), Hachette (Czech Republic, Spain), HOLA (Spain), IDG (Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom), IPC Media (United Kingdom), La Nación (Argentina), MAP Magazine Kiado Kereskedelmi (Hungary), MC Ediciones (Spain), Motorpress Ibérica-GYJ (Spain), PBR Publishing (Romania), Playmedia Company (Italy) and Prisma (Spain).
Major international magazine titles include: Australia’s Surfing Life (Australia), CAIJING MAGAZINE (China), ElGourmet.com (Mexico), ELLE Interiør (Norway), Fashion Collection Russia (Russia), Hola! (Spain), Joy (Hungary), Le Point (France), Lugares (Argentina), Maxim (Czech Republic), Polityka (Poland), Shape (Greece), T3 (Italy), Wallpaper* (United Kingdom) and World Heritage (Taiwan).
Zinio released its first album insert on the self-titled second studio album released by the Jonas Brothers, which was released on August 7, 2007. The album was the first to be released using CDVU+ technology, powered by Zinio, followed by others from Disney Hollywood Records: Jonas Brothers (“A Little Bit Longer”), Jesse McCartney (“Departure”), Atreyu (“Lead Sails Paper Anchor”) and from Disney Records: The Cheetah Girls(“One World”).
