Comments on: More on Zinio

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:12:54 +0000

I think the main problem with Zinio is that it pales in comparison to other magazines and papers on the iPad that are fully interactive. For example, I got a sample issue of New Musical Express - and why should I have to print out the crossword to play it from the app if I can just use a crossword app? There's no thought or heart in any of it, they all look like scanned copies of the magazines. Vanity Fair and The New Yorker got it right this week with their formats - they're intuitive, comfortable to use and read, and a legitimate substitute for the print editions. The magazines on Zinio might as well be crappy pdfs, and no one should have to pay for that. I can't believe the magazine developers aren't raising more of a stink - I wouldn't want my product reduced to that.

By: LaVinda

LaVinda — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:05:31 +0000

This software is really horrible It came preinstalled on my new iMac. I ordered a subscription for macworld and downloaded it. The magazine was unreadable.I then proceeded to try all of the suggestions in the FAQs and got the same result. I contacted tech support by email and phone with no response. They only responded with the generic automated responses which did not help. The really bad thing is that I waited a year before trying a digital subscription because I was unsure I would like it and I paid $69.99 for a subscription for the UK version of macworld. I live in the US so getting the digital version of this magazine seemed appealling. I want a refund but cannot seem to extract one from them no matter what I do.I have attempted to resolve this with them throgh several phone call and emails with no luck. So to anyone reading this BEWARE this is more trouble than it is worth. They have taken DRM to an all time low

By: Talon Jensen

Talon Jensen — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:26:24 +0000

What an awful reader, I used Zinio on a PC to view PC Magazine since PC Magazine made a cheap offer to use it. It was slow, non-intuitive and cumbersome.

Acrobat's pdf files are much better with little overhead, couldn't Adobe just add some DRM to Acrobat to quell publishers' nightmares?

I called PC Magazine back and asked to receive the paper version and uninstalled Zinio.

I would much prefer to have my magazines in digital format, especially for searching. But, there needs to be a usable reader and DRM.

When Intuit put DRM into TurboTax, it was a poor implementation and after six years of using TurboTax I switched to TaxCut. It seems to me that Zinio is a DRM implementation that is obnoxious just like Intuit's.

By: nasty

nasty — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:19:53 +0000

I had this problem - major headache... Change your firewall settings temporarily to allow all connections through and then use uninstall from the start menu.Should work ok.

Zinio must be the crappest software I have ever used.

By: K Caldwell

K Caldwell — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:20:17 +0000

How do you get read of this program? I decided it wasn't for me, so went into delete mode. I started in the Add/Remove program, then checked my hard drive. Found it there, so deleted. And then, noticed in my "Common files" that it was STILL there. Upon trying to delete it rec'd the following message: "Error deleting file or folder. Cannot delete ZSHExt.dll. Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full and that the file is not currently in use." What's up with that? Why won't it go away? Any ideas how I can get rid of it? Please help. Thanks

By: Gloria Westerly

Gloria Westerly — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:28:43 +0000

I received a Texterity edition of "Technology and Learning" in digital magazine format. See tnl-pwf.texterity.com. It was very clean, fast, and it worked on the Macs and the PCs easily. No plug-in is required, it works right from my browser.

The quality is excellent. They even have pictures that pop up for a photography contest. This is far superior to Zinio, as it requires no download, no program to install.

It's a great user experience, even on a fairly slow connection at my school.

By: Phil Dixon

Phil Dixon — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:19:13 +0000

I couldn't get past the 14M download to even see a magazine to comment on Zinio reader but I would have much preferred PDF to make my life simpler and save disk space.

But really I'd rather have a paper issue actually whatever the software's like.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:03:18 +0000

Yes, I read what you wrote - I'm wondering if you think Zinio is a total write-off for you or if there is *any* way you could find it valuable??

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:23:19 +0000

Kevin, uh, did you read everything we wrote? Why did you list an @yahoo.com email account?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:01:13 +0000

Hi there everyone - I am the founder of Zinio and am interested in everyone's reaction to the product. If there were some ways you'd like to see the Zinio product tweaked to add value for you, what would they be? Perhaps more integrated multimedia such as video, audio, animation, etc? Copy & paste? Better search?