TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Zinio http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 14:47:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Zinio partnering with Nokia for exclusive app, and $50 worth of free magazines http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-partnering-with-nokia-for-exclusive-app-and-50-worth-of-free-magazines/ http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-partnering-with-nokia-for-exclusive-app-and-50-worth-of-free-magazines/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 20:57:29 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=84636 This one’s pretty specific. If you have a Nokia Lumia Windows 8 phone and are a user of Zinio, you can get $50 worth of free magazines. All this is in celebration of Zinio partnering with Nokia to release an exclusive app for the Nokia Lumia phone. By exclusive, they mean that the Lumia is [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-partnering-with-nokia-for-exclusive-app-and-50-worth-of-free-magazines/feed/ 0 Cord Cutters, Digital Mooches and the Content Conundrum of the Future http://www.teleread.com/content/cord-cutters-digital-mooches-and-the-content-conundrum-of-the-future/ http://www.teleread.com/content/cord-cutters-digital-mooches-and-the-content-conundrum-of-the-future/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:15:11 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=82254 Dan linked to a great article in today’s Morning Links roundup about ‘digital mooches,’ aka the 20-somethings who may be leaving Mom and Dad’s house in the coming years, yet seem to have no plans to leave their parents’ cell phone contracts or Netflix subscriptions. I read this article with interest; I’d just read another about [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-9/feed/ 0 The Hospital: Where paper—not tech—still rules http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/the-hospital-where-paper-not-tech-still-rules/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/the-hospital-where-paper-not-tech-still-rules/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:30:55 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=74244 My mother is home at last after a week in the hospital recovering from major surgery. I’m glad she’s at last on the mend, but I was struck by how tech-free her whole recovery experience has been so far. From the time she checked into the hospital a week and a bit ago until I [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/the-hospital-where-paper-not-tech-still-rules/feed/ 6 Zinio to automatically renew all your subscriptions from now on http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-to-automatically-renew-all-your-subscriptions-from-now-on/ http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-to-automatically-renew-all-your-subscriptions-from-now-on/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:33:32 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=68547 I received an email today about some important changes in the terms of service for Zinio magazine subscribers. On the benign level, you can now enable your iPad to automatically download issues for you. But on the more major level, Zinio has “enabled” continuous service for “most magazines” on your behalf. What this means is [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/zinio/zinio-to-automatically-renew-all-your-subscriptions-from-now-on/feed/ 25 E-magazine service Zinio reportedly seeks buyer http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/e-magazine-service-zinio-reportedly-seeks-buyer/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/e-magazine-service-zinio-reportedly-seeks-buyer/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/e-magazine-service-zinio-reportedly-seeks-buyer/ And speaking of e-magazines, CNN’s Fortune Magazine has broken the story that Zinio, the original e-newsstand app, is now seeking a buyer, to the tune of $50 to $100 million. CNN calls Zinio a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s Newsstand apps, but Zinio has been around since long before the Kindle was even a [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/recorded-books-and-zinio-debuting-digital-magazine-newsstand-for-u-s-libraries/feed/ 0 Zinio now in Amazon app store; works on Kindle Fire http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/zinio-now-in-amazon-app-store-works-on-kindle-fire/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/zinio-now-in-amazon-app-store-works-on-kindle-fire/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:57:08 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=61217 From the press release: Zinio, the world’s largest and most popular magazine marketplace, is now available on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Debuting #1 in free magazines in the Amazon Appstore, Zinio is now available on more tablet devices than any other newsstand or magazine reader, including on the iPad, ASUS Transformer, Acer Iconia, Lenovo IdeaPad, Samsung [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/zinio-and-recorded-books-bring-digital-magazines-to-libraries/feed/ 0 Zinio arrives on Android tablets (3.0 and higher) http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/zinio-arrives-on-android-tablets-3-0-and-higher/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/zinio-arrives-on-android-tablets-3-0-and-higher/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:46:11 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=56747 z From the MediaIDEAS’ Blog: Zinio has announced the release of its new magazine newsstand app for Android tablets running 3.0 Honeycomb or higher. With it, comes access to over 20,000 magazines covering a variety of topics. Zinio’s app will sync a user’s magazine collection over multiple devices, so that they can easily access it [...]

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