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Zinio for iPad

how many magazines have you found that have more information in their magazines than on their website for free. I bought Popular Mechanics yesterday but it seems that all the same information is on their website for free.

I guess that I want to hear everyone's experience on this to see if the magazines would be worth the price. I normally don't buy many magazines but I was thinking of doing that with the iPad.
 
heathpitts said:
how many magazines have you found that have more information in their magazines than on their website for free. I bought Popular Mechanics yesterday but it seems that all the same information is on their website for free.

I guess that I want to hear everyone's experience on this to see if the magazines would be worth the price. I normally don't buy many magazines but I was thinking of doing that with the iPad.
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One of the magazines they have is VIVmag, which is a Zinio-only magazine -- that is, no print edition. (A look at it here.)

Most publishers use a company like Zinio as an extension of the newsstand. While I like what they do, if you want to see added features and more multimedia you'll probably see this in separate apps. It will be interesting to see what Wired does.
 
aduteau said:
Holly cow ... if I can subscribe and download to my iPad strait from the app ... I am SOLD !!! :)
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Although when you get to the purchase screen, and have to fill out your credit card number, name, address, etc. you might want to hop over to the real keyboard. That's what I did.
 
Also incase you guys were wondering, you can take a picture of any page in zinio or anything that matter, with the home/sleep button key and use them as wallpaper.. I can think of a few magazines where this is going to be a useful feature :)
 
talkingnewmedia said:
One of the magazines they have is VIVmag, which is a Zinio-only magazine -- that is, no print edition. (A look at it here.)

Most publishers use a company like Zinio as an extension of the newsstand. While I like what they do, if you want to see added features and more multimedia you'll probably see this in separate apps. It will be interesting to see what Wired does.
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I'm waiting for Wired Magazine too. :)
 
I'm considering getting ESPN the magazine. 14.97 for 26 issues is a great price.
 
wingnut8 said:
I'm considering getting ESPN the magazine. 14.97 for 26 issues is a great price.
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That sounds good. I think digital magazines on the ipad is a brilliant idea. That way I can read them whenever I choose without carrying anything extra (ipad plus a magazine).
 
LadyHoneyBabe said:
That sounds good. I think digital magazines on the ipad is a brilliant idea. That way I can read them whenever I choose without carrying anything extra (ipad plus a magazine).
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Especially considering how big and bulky ESPN the magazine is.
 
I'd love to check this out but I tried to create an account from my iPad and the app just freezes. :(
 
I keep loading this app and thinking I might actually purchase some magazines (that food/cooking magazine is calling my name), but the loading/rendering time is so slow. And it seems like it re-renders each page multiple times (like if you try to flip back it renders it again). I'm hoping to see some optimization in it, but I would definitely be a potential digital magazine buyer if they do.
 
^ Good point there. I noticed that as well. I'd like it to sort of hold a bit of cache, but perhaps that's the only way they can do it as the memory on the iPad is less than ... well we'll just say it's less than.
 
It seems like the stand-alone magazine apps don't have the same problem (I haven't bought any but I flipped through a friend's Popular Science issue and don't recall having the same annoyance level). So, I suppose I'm still holding out hope Zinio will see some improvements.
 
gwynne said:
I keep loading this app and thinking I might actually purchase some magazines (that food/cooking magazine is calling my name), but the loading/rendering time is so slow. And it seems like it re-renders each page multiple times (like if you try to flip back it renders it again). I'm hoping to see some optimization in it, but I would definitely be a potential digital magazine buyer if they do.
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Browsing their website is a much easier way to see everything. And when you create an account all is sync'd on web, iPad and iPhone.
 
ipoddin said:
Browsing their website is a much easier way to see everything. And when you create an account all is sync'd on web, iPad and iPhone.
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Sorry, I'm confused--does this fix the slow loading/rendering times? Does that only happen with the free sample mags or something?
 
^ I too would like to know. How do you "sync" is it like the Kindle store and Kindle for iPad app?
 
Well, dang it.

http://theappleblog.com/2010/04/21/zinio-ipad-magazines-disappointing-future/

For starters, each page takes around a second to load. Take a moment and imagine that…imagine reading a magazine and waiting an entire second every time you decide to turn a page. Need to quickly flick back and take a glance at that article from a few pages ago? Prepare to wait.
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I read fast, this kind of thing makes me crazy.

Maybe I'll just buy a 'real' subscription to Saveur, heh.
 
My Complaints

As a longtime Zinio user, here are my top complaints about the app so far:

Not all of my magazines are there. This blows because it means I still am having to use the PC for the rest of the subscriptions. There is also no news on when they WILL be available.

Damn, is it ever slow. What in the heck is it DOING to render things so slowly? The pause when you change pages, get the blurry render, then the crisp one is actually quite maddening.

Hopefully these two things can be addressed soon.
 
rickeames said:
Damn, is it ever slow. What in the heck is it DOING to render things so slowly? The pause when you change pages, get the blurry render, then the crisp one is actually quite maddening..
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So it's not just the sample magazines that do this?

This is doubly confusing because, as far as I know, they are just scans of the magazine and for the most part don't have any extra embedded bells and whistles. (Well, I know some of them do, like Viv, but the one I really wanted, "Saveur", doesn't seem to have so much as a Text button.) So what *is* the rendering holdup?

Well, the iPad has sort of inadvertently brought a customer back to the publishing industry--I signed up for a paper subscription to Saveur today. The sample issues in Zinio got me hooked, but ultimately I decided it's something I'd like to have a 'real' stack of to thumb through on the coffee table.
 
Any Spin subscribers get the magazine to show up in their library. Only one of my subs I don't see but is iPad compatible on the Zinio site.

Nevermind...they just showed up.
 
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