![]() ![]() The only drawbacks that I see are the DRM, and the cost for subscribing toīoth versions of a magazine. It is convenient to use and has an intuitive interface. The bottom line is that I really like the Zinio reader as a complement to You can either purchase a subscription to a magazine Is a new, electronic-only magazine that has embedded video and other “Rich The Mac Developer Journal bears special mention. Also, the Zinio Web site has numerous sample issues of these magazines Magazine selection is fairly decent, with about 30 or so different titlesīeing offered, including Macworld and the new, digital-only, Macĭeveloper Journal. At the bottom is a tool for rapidly “flipping” through The Zinio Reader interface has icons at the top for zooming in, printing, But both of these are small issues in an overall So per year to be able to download an electronic version of what I alreadyĪm paying for would be great. Those of us who already subscribe to the printed magazine. Is the cost-I would like to see a discounted subscription rate for Where one download can be shared across three computers. I would be much happier with the iTunes DRM method At 15+MB per magazine that takes quite a while onĪ dial-up connection. You cannot copy it overĪ LAN or burn it to a CD to read it on other machines (although you can download Replies to negative reviews in < 24 hours. Replied to 10 out of 10 negative reviews. On each machine that you want to use to read it. Do you agree with Zinios 4-star rating Check out what 319 people. Zinio requires you to download a magazine One of the things that I don’t like about the Zinio system is its approach What works in print doesn’t necessarily work electronically. The cover art for an electronic magazine isn’t particularly inspiring. That works well on my 800 MHz iBook with 256M RAM. The reader also canīe navigated by keyboard shortcuts. In addition to the smart mouse actions, there areĪlso navigation buttons along the bottom of the reader. Like AdobeĪcrobat Reader, moving around in a zoomed in page is as simple as clickingĪnd dragging the page. Of a page causes the page to flip, with or without animation. The two-page width to one third of a page in width. Zooming in from two pages wide to one page wide, to as large a zoom as from Read (on a 12" iBook at least) but the default mouse click action is This results in text that is a little too small for me to The display shows two facing pages (or just the cover when you first openĪ new magazine). Once you downloadĪ magazine and open it in the reader it behaves similarly to a paper magazine. Zinio Reader (Panther version, 1.4.3) is a free 6.4 megabyte download thatĪllows you to download and read the electronic magazines. Through the use of Zinio you can access full publications on your PC/Mac, iPhone, iPad, and any Android. The Zinio Delivery Manager dialog is not particularly inspiring. Zinio is an online magazine subscription service. ![]() I just renewed my print subscription I decided to try the electronic version, Traditional or electronic format published by Zinio ( Since When I registered my new G4 iBook last week I received a nice E-mail fromĪpple with a nice gift-one free year of Macworld magazine, in either Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook A Short Review of Zinio Reader © 2004 Mike Mellor Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint I've got yet another problem report lodged with Zinio. However while in Desktop Reader/ZR5 Offline library the magazine front cover "thumbnail" has a green bar indicating it has downloaded, but I can't find where it is now to read itĬlicking on the "eye" icon just downloads the mag again page by page, and the only other options are either "delete" or "download". I did this, and now I find that the May 2018 edition isn't listed yet if I click on the link in the email notifying it's available IE goes to the online version OK.Īlso earlier today in Desktop Reader/ZR5 Offline I selected the download option for the April 2018 edition and this appeared to be successful, intending to read it later. However back in March when I fired up Zinio Reader I found that the latest magazine wasn't listed as available and would not download/update, and after contacting Zinio customer support was told they'd stopped support for v4 (it would have been nice to be told beforehand) and they recommended downloading Desktop Reader/ZR5 Offline v1.0.19 It is also the App for magazine lovers to read digital publications on iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC. I use Zinio Reader on a desktop PC to access the magazines, and using v4 everything worked well for the few years I've been a subscriber. Zinio is the world largest newsstand that has included more than 5,500 publications on its platform. ![]()
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