SAN FRANCISCO, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Hot Studio, an innovative experience design company, played a key role in the design of the featured iPad app for Zinio, a global leader in digital publishing technology and services -- and the world's largest newsstand.

Hot Studio brought its deep understanding of experience design to the app-development team, sketching a product roadmap, and then rapidly designing and implementing a store, reader and new types of content, tailored for the iPad.

The free Zinio app, which was available on the iPad's App Store on the day of the device's launch, is a substantive product offering.  It enables readers, publishers and advertisers to embrace a new world of interactive, full-color, multimedia magazines on the iPad.  And, the app offers the unique added benefit of letting readers pay once for a magazine subscription or single issue, then publish that content across different platforms and on a myriad of devices, such as tablets, smart phones, PCs and Macs.

Rich Maggiotto, President and CEO, Zinio, says, "Hot was a fantastic partner on this project.  Within a tight time frame, their experts integrated seamlessly with our established team and grasped the subtleties of our business, the platform for which we were designing, as well as what publishers would need from the app.  I can't imagine working with a better group of seasoned, engaged professionals."

Hot Studio continues to design and develop new content modules for the iPad with Zinio and its partners, and is working with them to design and deploy additional tools and methods that will help publishers take advantage of other exciting, digital-platform opportunities.

About Hot Studio:

Hot Studio, with offices in San Francisco and New York City, has been designing innovative, award-winning human experiences since founded in 1997. For more information visit http://www.hotstudio.com.

About Zinio:

Zinio, the world's newsstand, is revolutionizing reading. Through digital products and services, the Company creates better ways for people to discover published content, get more of it and do more with it. Zinio works closely with publishers worldwide to reinvent reading. For consumers, Zinio enables the ability to shop for, search inside, read, share and save digital content in new ways and on many devices. With over 50,000 digital magazines and books, and e-stores localized in 15 languages, zinio.com is the largest newsstand in the world. Founded in 2001 and privately held, Zinio is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Barcelona and Taipei.

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