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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
Adobe

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, and water, with some kind of fibrous or organic material , which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun....
 and Contentguard.






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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
Adobe

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, and water, with some kind of fibrous or organic material , which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun....
 and Contentguard. It has been suggested that there are DRM
Digital rights management

Digital rights management refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright holders, and hardware manufacturers to limit usage of digital media or devices....
 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
Mac OS

Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems....
 and Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
, 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, textbooks are available at Textbooks.Zinio.com , and adult magazines are available at Undercovermags, 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
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 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
Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a weekly magazine focused on the business of funding, building, and taking new technologies to market. It also sponsors a number of conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together....
.

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
AutoWeek

AutoWeek is a fortnightly automotive enthusiast publication based out of Detroit, Michigan. One of 32 titles published by Crain Communications Inc, its parent company, AutoWeek is unique as the only consumer title among its sister publications....
, Boating magazine
Boating magazine

A boating magazine is a publication whose main topic is boating, new boat reviews, boat motors and watersports. They can be aimed at different water sports enthusiasts including but not limited to: cruisers, fishers, skiers, sailors, racers, et cetera....
, BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time....
, ,CosmoGirl, Elle
Elle

Elle may refer to:*Elle **Elle Girl, a spin-off magazine*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle, orthographic unit consisting of ll in Spanish alphabet...
, Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School....
, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Kiplinger's Personal Finance is a magazine that has been continuously published, on a monthly basis, from 1947 to the present day. It was the nation's first personal finance magazine, and prides itself on delivering "sound, unbiased advice in clear, concise language"....
, Macworld
Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California....
, Men's Health
Men's Health (magazine)

Men's Health , published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the world?s largest men?s magazine brand, with 38 editions around the world, a monthly circulation of 1.85 million, and 12 million monthly readers....
, , National Geographic, Playboy
Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium....
, Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornography pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore pornography....
, Redbook
Redbook

Redbook is an United States of America women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation....
, , VIVmag
VIVmag

VIVmag is the first exclusively digital, interactive women's lifestyle magazine. Launched in 2006 and backed by Canadian industrialist David Harrison Gilmour , the bimonthly magazine is distributed by Zinio Systems, Inc....
 (which launched completely digital), Windsurfing
Windsurfing

Windsurfing, or sailboarding, is a Surface Water Sports using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by the wind pushing on a sail....
, and Woman's Day
Woman's Day

Woman's Day is a magazine aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, physical fitness, beauty and fashion. There is currently an Woman's Day and an American version....
, among many others.