Award-Winning All-Digital Women's Magazine VIVmag Ushers in Holiday Season with the Original Cover Girl Carol Alt

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The holiday season is a time for celebration and reflecting on what matters most in life: your family, your health and the importance of making a difference in the world. Launched today and now available on the iPad, iPhone, Mac and PC, the November/December 2010 "Giving Back" issue of VIVmag, the original all-digital women's luxury magazine, celebrates the joys of the season. The issue offers an exclusive holiday lineup of interactive style, food, fashion, fitness and wellness features designed to help women "Vivify" their end-of-year celebrations.

"The holidays are a time when many of us slow down, spend time with family and take stock of our lives and the events of the past year," said Anne M. Russell, editor-in-chief, VIVmag. "In that spirit, this issue of VIVmag kicks off with an exclusive profile of one of the original supermodels, Carol Alt, who—still stunning and vivacious at age 50—shares her secrets to longevity and what's most important to her today."

With complete holiday-themed coverage in VIVmag's signature dynamic, interactive, rich-media style, the "Giving Back" issue features the VIVmag "Guide to Smarter Giving" to help readers make the most of tax and other financial benefits when making donations, plus resident Home Style entertaining expert Colin Cowie talks with The Angelrock Project founder Malaak Compton-Rock about the importance of philanthropy.

Other holiday health, wellness and style features include:

• holiday fashions that look festive — not foolish — plus red-carpet ready hairstyles and winter style straight from the runway;
• a high-intensity stress-busting workout that can help you lose weight and keep your cool, despite the decadent dishes and difficult relatives you may encounter this season;
• holiday gift guides with advice for choosing gifts that keep on giving beyond the holiday season—for friends, relatives, fitness lovers and even your holiday party hostess;
• wine, food and music advice for planning the perfect holiday soiree.

Celebrated for its interactive, immersive digital content, VIVmag recently won silver in the international DIGITAL MAGAZINE AWARDS competition in the Lifestyle Magazine of the Year category, celebrating the best magazines and individuals from the digital publishing industry. VIVmag also earned recognition as the Leading Digital Edition at min's Editorial & Design Awards on November 8, 2010. With nearly 375,000 readers, VIVmag is one of the largest subscription-based, all-digital women's lifestyle magazines and the only one available on multiple digital platforms/devices, including iPad, iPhone, Mac and PC.

Powered by UNITY™, Zinio's multimedia, universal reading platform, VIVmag expanded its reach to become a truly ubiquitous lifestyle guide for women with the launch of its free VIVmag app for iPad™ on October 19, creating an ultra-portable, accessible-from-anywhere ecosystem for its exclusive interactive, rich media features and advertising content.

To preview the upcoming November/December 2010 Giving Back Issue of VIVmag, visit www.vivmag.com.

About VIVmag

VIVmag is a first: It's an exclusively digital, 100% interactive magazine that delivers reliable, accurate service journalism in fitness, wellness, fashion, beauty, awareness and nutrition. Its audience of savvy women is genuinely committed to leading healthy, balanced lives. VIVmag's interactive content entertains and informs, helping readers achieve the confidence that comes from engaging life at a higher level.  From interactive exercise demonstrations to point-and-click purchasing power right from its pages, VIVmag has attracted a circulation of 375,000 influential readers committed to discovering and embracing the future of magazines. To learn more about VIVmag, please visit www.VIVmag.com.

About Zinio

Zinio is the world's largest newsstand and bookstore. With its many digital products and services, Zinio creates better ways for people to discover published content, get more of it and do more with it. Now, readers can purchase content once to be read on any screen. Zinio provides the ability to shop for, search inside, read, share and save digital content in 23 local newsstands in any country in the world. Through the Zinio UNITY™ reading platform, readers can move seamlessly within each publication page between text, interactive graphics, animated illustrations, videos and much more. Offering hundreds of thousands of the best digital issues, Zinio's e-stores and applications are revolutionizing reading. 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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