{"id":704373,"date":"2010-03-30T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=61047"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:30:24","slug":"zinio%e2%80%99s-new-air-app-shows-the-future-of-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704373","title":{"rendered":"Zinio\u2019s New AIR App Shows the Future of Magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The year was 2005 and I was reading a magazine — on a Microsoft Windows Tablet PC. The experience was a precursor to what I anticipate from Apple’s iPad. It was an enjoyable and portable experience. The software I used back then was Zinio Reader and a new beta version of the software is now available in an Adobe AIR application — it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux computers.<\/p>\n

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All of the features from prior versions are in the new Zinio Reader 4<\/a>: page bookmarks, clips of favorites, sharing content with friends, offline reading and more. I grabbed a sample magazine — the recent issue of iPhone Life — and totally enjoyed the experience. Visually, the digital magazine content is stunning and the zooming works great — text re-renders properly and quickly after a zoom. Page turns can show as sliding content or as an actual,\u00a0physical\u00a0page flip. Web links are active too. Tapping one opens up your computer’s default web browser instantly. And although I don’t pay much notice to\u00a0advertisements, Zinio says these can be dynamic and interactive.<\/p>\n

Zinio plans to offer an iPad application next month<\/a> and I anticipate the experience to be very similar. In fact, if you want a pre-cursor, give the new Zinio Reader 4 app a download to get a feel for what to expect. And between now and April 2, you can download a free digital copy of National Geographic’s Water issue<\/a>. For some reason it’s not appearing for me in the new Reader 4 app, but I can open it directly from my browser and use Zinio’s Flash-based reader. Hopefully, that’s a beta glitch that gets addressed soon because the interaction on this magazine issue had me hooked in five seconds. As soon as I saw water actually flowing on the cover, I was drowning myself in the content.<\/p>\n

Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req\u2019d):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irrational Exuberance Over E-Books?<\/a><\/p>\n

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