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I love my Zinio...

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So I've really come to love my Zinio.  So much in fact that I read my magazines on my work desktop, my home desktop, my tablet computer and even my wife's laptop.

Because annual subscriptions are usually significantly cheaper through Zinio (due primarily to the eliminated processing costs as well as shipping and delivery) I find myself subscribing to far more magazines than I normally would.

An example of my subscriptions:

• BusinessWeek (currently 88% off cover price)
• Cycle World (currently $12/yr)
• FHM (ahem) ... it was cheap okay!?  ... but doesn't seem available anymore.  Instead you can order 16 different language versions of Maxim.
• Foreign Policy
• Harvard Business Review
• PC Magazine
• Popular Photography & Imagine
• Sporting News

Some of the best features though of Zinio are:

• It is an *exact* replica of the print version of the magazine including inserts, fold-outs, etc.
• Everything is hyperlinked, including the table of contents (to each respective story) and even web URLs.
• It works with the TabletPC so that I can annotate (i.e. "mark up" and highlight) the pages.
• My magazine library is consolidated and portable.  And as a result of this and being digital, it is searchable.  This is particularly great with periodicals such as Harvard Business Review (and FHM! :)
• You can order single issues of magazines without subscribing.
• Using it with FolderShare allows me to see any of my subscriptions on any of my Windows systems.
• The"viewer" is free, and you can try some free magazines.

Unfortunately one publication that they apparently can't digitize (or haven't obtained the rights to) is "The Economist".  That would absolutely make my day.

Another thing to look at is PressReader for newspaper subscriptions...

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