Zinio

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Zinio is a company providing sales and distribution for popular magazines and books in a digital format.

Zinio provides consumer and trade publishers with a way to distribute and sell their printed publications digitally, to be read online or offline. Zinio also has marketing services and hosts various newsstands and bookstores to sell publications on behalf of publishers.

Online and/or offline reader programs are required to access the magazines, which utilize a combination of technology licensed from Adobe and Contentguard. It has been suggested that 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 business, education, travel, fashion, sports and adult.

The consumer magazines are available globally Zinio.com^[1], textbooks are available at Textbooks.Zinio.com ^[2], and adult magazines are available at Undercovermags^[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 on contact confirmed that they are developing a universal binary for Mac but have not provided a release date.

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.).

Zinio has had customer service complaints with magazines including Red Herring^[4].

Major publishing partners include Bonnier, Hearst, IDG, Gruner + Jahr, Hachette Filipacchi, IPC Media, Mariah Media, McGraw-Hill, The National Magazine Company, Playboy Enterprises, Primedia, Rogers Publishing and Ziff Davis and titles include: American PHOTO, Arizona Highways, AutoWeek, Boating magazine, BusinessWeek, Classic Motorcycle Mechnanics,CosmoGirl, Elle, Harvard Business Review, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Macworld, Men's Health, Motorcycle Sport and Leisure, ^[5]National Geographic, Playboy, Penthouse, Redbook, Scooterist Scene, Woman's Day, ^[6]VIVmag (which launched completely digital), Windsurfing, and^[7] Woman's Day, among many others.

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