![]() ![]() 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 Zinio allows you to read full magazines offline and sync your library across devices. The provider is an iPad app veteran, being the first to offer a magazine platform for this device. Is a new, electronic-only magazine that has embedded video and other “Rich Zinio’s ipad app is especially favored by customers who are looking to access all of their online magazines at any time and from anywhere. 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 Replies to negative reviews in < 24 hours. Replied to 10 out of 10 negative reviews. The Zinio Reader interface has icons at the top for zooming in, printing, Do you agree with Zinios 4-star rating Check out what 319 people. 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 On each machine that you want to use to read it. 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. Download Zinio Reader for Mac to read online print media content. 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. The Zinio Delivery Manager dialog is not particularly inspiring. 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 So please check it out and let us know what you think! We’ve already got a list of future improvements a mile long, but we know you guys will have your own suggestions, and we can’t wait to add them to the list.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 Right now the app is available for free, courtesy of our launch sponsor, Epson. There’s much, much more that we want to do with the app, and the journey begins here. ![]() Though we’ve been working on Macworld Daily Reader for a long time, this is still just a 1.0 release. We’ll be adding new feature stories to the app every week. You can swipe the list of banners, or just go to the app’s Features section to see them all. These are our new iPad feature stories, collections of stories on particular topics-many of which will appear first in the Macworld Daily Reader. And just as you’d expect, tapping on any product will display the full text of our review.Īt the top of the landing page you’ll also find a scrolling set of banners. Just below the Live View is the Daily Reader’s review widget, which lets you see our reviews of the latest iOS apps, hardware, and Mac software. If you want to see what’s happening right now, the Live View is the place to go. Also on the Daily Reader’s landing page is our Live View, which combines the Twitter feeds of several Macworld editors and contributors with a stream of news from. ![]()
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