Zinio

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Zinio
Founder(s) Kevin McCurdy
Headquarters San Francisco, California
Website zinio.com

Zinio is a publishing technology and services company, which provides sales and distribution of printed material in digital format including magazines, books, catalogs, newsletters and research.[1] In this capacity, Zinio is the world's largest newsstand and bookstore.[2]

The company's website allows documents to be read either online or downloaded to be read offline on both computers (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux-based computers) and portable devices such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android.

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[edit] Company

Founded in 2000 by Kevin McCurdy, Zinio is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Barcelona and Taipei; as well as several franchisees worldwide.[3] The company is privately held by Gilvest LP, an investment entity owned by entrepreneur and businessman David Gilmour.

The company works with publishers and the publishers set the prices of their publications. The content is protected with DRM that prevents magazines from being circulated without the prior approval of the publishers.

[edit] Publications

Publishing partners in North America include: Alpha Media Group Inc., Bonnier Corporation, Hachette Filipacchi Media,, Hearst Corporation, IDG, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The McGraw-Hill Companies,, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Rogers Publishing, Source Interlink Media, The Economist, Transcontinental, Wiley and Ziff Davis.

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, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Road & Track, Saveur, Seventeen, The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, and Woman’s Day, among others.

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), MAP Magazine Kiado Kereskedelmi (Hungary), MC Ediciones (Spain), Motorpress Ibérica-GYJ (Spain), PBR Publishing (Romania), Playmedia Company (Italy) and Prisma (Spain).

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), Rogue (Philippines), 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”).

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[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Reid, Calvin (September 27, 2010). "Zinio Wants Visual Digital Books ". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved on October 11, 2010.
  2. ^ http://www.zinio.com/corp/company-overview.jsp
  3. ^ http://es.zinio.com/corp/company-overview.jsp

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