Oh, the timing of press releases. Looks like Zinio, my favorite electronic magazine provider, isn’t taking the Amazon Kindle release lying down. They’ve got a press release for iPhone and iPod Touch owners that piqued my interest when I saw news of it on Mobility Site. The Zino Labs team is now offering a select group of magazines for your device at zero-cost, as in free. I just hopped over to www.zinio.com/iphone on my iPhone and see 18 current magazine titles on the newsstand. The offerings are an eclectic mix, although three of the 18 are shall we say, gentleman’s periodicals, and include popular titles like Car & Driver, Men’s Health, Macworld, Woman’s Day and Kiplinger’s to name a few.Using a WiFi connection, I just tapped the cover of Men’s Health, a magazine I currently subscribe to. That led me to a thumbnail page-by-page view where I could navigate around. Tapping any page causes that page to take up your whole screen. Of course, you can pinch to zoom and read or tap and drag around that page. After that, it gets tricky. You can’t move to another page without tapping a little arrow that appears at either the top or bottom of the page; I had to zoom in on the arrow in order to flip pages. There’s also a button for the magazine contents, which provides a clickable list of the articles and stories. I found that to be a good way to navigate around. It’s not ideal yet, but it looks like an early attempt that should get better over time. Plus, it’s free!
Subscriber content
?
Subscriber content comes from Gigaom Research, bridging the gap between breaking news and long-tail research. Visit any of our reports to learn more and subscribe.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
["wijax_da11cde1ebee38a4e32d7d294e8967a7","wijax_beaf3f88d027430d64644eb4afbae918"]
{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/11\/19\/zinio-offering\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_83b8e2e90809f0a1183c92ca9e5e6342","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}
{"source":"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/11\/19\/zinio-offering\/wijax\/49e8740702c6da9341d50357217fb629","varname":"wijax_83b8e2e90809f0a1183c92ca9e5e6342","title_element":"header","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Cheader%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fheader%3E"}
Comments have been disabled for this post