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.
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[edit] Company
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 Corp.).
[edit] Publications
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 (www.vivmag.com) 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.
[edit] Complaints
Zinio has had customer service complaints with magazines including Red Herring.[1]
