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  Zinio and Recorded Books bring digital magazines to libraries

  4077 readers From Ebook Magazine: Library users in the UK will soon be able to enjoy digital versions of their favourite magazines thanks to a partnership between audiobook distributer Recorded Books and digital mag retailer Zinio. The two companies will make available a ‘Zinio for Libraries’ service which gives patrons access to magazines via their library card. The service

• Zinio’s new library program with partner Recorded Books is moving out of beta phase as the number of library systems signing up quickly begins to grow

  1023 readersThere has not been a week that goes by, it seems, that I do not stumble upon a new story in a local newspaper about its local library now offering digital magazines as part of its services. The new development is the result of an effort by digital newsstand company Zinio, along with its partner

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  Zinio Digital Magazines Coming Soon to a Library Near You

  3731 readersZinio and Recorded Books announced a new partnership today. This new partnership will let visitors to public libraries in the US, Canada, Australia and UK access thousands of digital magazines. Zinio for Libraries will have apps for both OSX and Windows. Features will be similar to Zinio’s current apps, including key word search and interactive elements.

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  E-magazine service Zinio reportedly seeks buyer

  3185 readersAnd 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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  Hearst is Releasing Digital Magazines to iPad Before Print

  288 readers Magazine publisher Hearst has partnered with Apple to release digital editions of its magazines before the print books drop. Hearst is the first publisher to participate in, “Read Them Here First,” a new program from Apple’s Newsstand which gives iPad users access to publications before these titles are available elsewhere. As of now 20 Hearst titles are

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  Britannica Digital Learning Launches new eBook Service

  3068 readersBritannica Digital Learning is now offering its collection of hundreds of new, highly illustrated non-fiction eBook titles via a new web portal, www.ebooks.eb.com. The new service is targeted at K-12 schools, universities, and public libraries. The new...

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  Publishers and vendors make their Newsstand decisions, as the number of available titles continues to grow

  2460 readersAs any distributor will tell you, there is only so much room on a physical newsstand. Not so, of course, for Apple's new digital newsstand that now has over 250 titles available – still small potatoes compared to Zinio, for instance, which has over 5,000 titles available. Yesterday I wondered why the New York Times would

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  Hachette Makes Full Ebook Catalog Available to Libraries

  101 readersStarting next week, Hachette’s complete ebook catalog, new releases included, will be available to both public and school libraries.Hachette is one of the last the last of the big six publishing houses to make its digital titles accessible to patrons. Through an existing partnership with the OverDrive digital distribution service, 5,000+ Hachette ebook titles will

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  Zinio arrives on Android tablets (3.0 and higher)

  3875 readersz 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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  Magzter launches its own Zinio-like digital newsstand with iPad app; PDF editions of mostly Indian magazines

  6347 readersProving that the only barrier to entry to the digital newsstand business is stocking the store, Magzter has launched its own newsstand with the release of its first iPad app. The free app, Magzter - The Global Mobile Magazine Store, promises more than it can deliver due to its lack of a solid online presence, and