Read Free on Zinio During Macworld 2011: Get Unprecedented Access to the World's Largest Newsstand

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zinio, the world's largest newsstand, is offering free access to titles within its innovative reading platform from January 18, 2011- January 31, 2011 for attendees and journalists at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco, CA. Attendees can pick up free access cards at the show from representatives walking the show floor with Zinio t-shirts.

As digital reading and the publishing industry's transformation continues to be a compelling and popular topic for the blogosphere, relevant bloggers will be able to offer free single issues of magazines, and discounts on tech magazines to their readers. Bloggers will receive a simple discount code for their fans that gives them a free issue chosen from Zinio's massive global online storefront and a code for 20% on many technology magazines featured in the Zinio storefront, for a limited time.

Zinio offers access to magazine subscriptions, single issues, back issues and "buy-it-once, read-it-anywhere" access to over 3,000 consumer magazine brands from around the world. Powered by its UNITY™ platform, content is accessible on multiple devices, including all PCs, iPhones, iPads, and select Android devices. Many of Zinio's top brands available showcase enhanced content with animated graphic and video capabilities.

"Macworld presents us the perfect time and venue to celebrate innovation in our industry," said Rich Maggiotto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Zinio. "We are excited to use this opportunity to unveil our plans for our 2.0 version of the Zinio App for iPad. Zinio 2.0 introduces a string of superb enhancements around personalization, bookmarking, clipping, social sharing, and we believe will take content discovery to a new level."

To schedule an exclusive demo of Zinio's 2.0 app for iPad, or to request access to Zinio's free reading code, and for 20% off select technology magazine subscription code, please contact Jeanniey Mullen at [email protected] and/or Lisa Kornblatt at [email protected].

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 26 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 more on most operating systems. 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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