For everyone bashing Zinio, keep in mind they only had a couple months to put the app together before launching it, and without benefit of a real iPad to test it on. I think they deserve a little slack right now, especially when no one else seems ready to make a stab at this market yet. Yeah, it's quirky, but it's better than nothing.
Now one thing that does annoy me about the Zinio app is the time wasting splash screen. I could do w/o that. It's also a little tricky to remove apps -- a little less voodoo there would be nice, also maybe some sort of content manager like the iPod has w/ podcasts where you can tell it how many issues of a title you want to keep on your iPad.
Prices for most magazines are the real problem. A big reason I don't buy magazines anymore is b/c they are too expensive for what they are -- either outdated news or a collection of rewritten press releases. Few mags are worth more than $1 an issue. If they can't make that work even when they are not spending $ on paper, ink, trucks, addt'l insurance then they need to close up shop like any other non-viable business.
Now one thing that does annoy me about the Zinio app is the time wasting splash screen. I could do w/o that. It's also a little tricky to remove apps -- a little less voodoo there would be nice, also maybe some sort of content manager like the iPod has w/ podcasts where you can tell it how many issues of a title you want to keep on your iPad.
Prices for most magazines are the real problem. A big reason I don't buy magazines anymore is b/c they are too expensive for what they are -- either outdated news or a collection of rewritten press releases. Few mags are worth more than $1 an issue. If they can't make that work even when they are not spending $ on paper, ink, trucks, addt'l insurance then they need to close up shop like any other non-viable business.