There's also a Blockbuster application to rent movies, Amazon's Kindle app (s amzn) and
the Zinio magazine reader software.
The Launcher has five «zones» — Watch (default launches mSpot movies), Email (Gmail), Listen (Slacker), Read (
Zinio magazine reader), and Web browser.
Not exact matches
Dell and T - Mobile also bundle the Streak with a number of non-exclusive pre-loaded apps to help you buy or rent multimedia content: The Blockbuster app provides on - demand video rentals; Amazon Kindle for Android lets you buy and read eBooks;
Zinio Reader lets you preview
magazines and subscribe to or buy individual issues in digital format.
When we wanted to kick back with a good read, we had a plethora of choices thanks to Blio, Google Books, and
Zinio (the digital
magazine reader).
The new feature of
Zinio Explore indeed has quite a positive effect on
magazine readers and reason enough to want to switch on the app every day to check out for newer bits of the
magazine.
«ShopAdvisor provides a valuable service to both
Zinio's
magazine readers, by offering them a natural way to «shop» a
magazine, as well as providing publishers access to a deep set of analytics about the impact of their editorial content and advertisements.»
Zinio, a leading worldwide platform for stand - alone or subscription digital
magazines, announced its partnership today with ShopAdvisor, a portal from evoqu that allows
readers to highlight items in the reading material — initially leading blogs and websites, but now expanded to digital
magazines — to create wish lists and to make purchases.
Zinio is focused on delivering global access and the best user experience, giving its
readers the ability to discover, read and shop for their favorite
magazines from around the world, on all their devices.
If you look at the
Readers Hub you have to open an account with Kobo to get books and then another account with
Zinio to get
magazines and so on.
«Having all of our titles available through
Zinio gives us an opportunity to reach
readers both across the world and on all digital mediums — PC, Mac, tablets and smartphones,» said Chris Wilkes, vice president, App Lab, Hearst
Magazines.
Zinio is passionate about connecting the world's best content with avid
readers and Z - Pass removes the price per
magazine barrier.»
Ditto for the raft of pre-installed apps, which include Amazon Kindle, App Backup, App Locker, separate download and file managers, Glowball, Movie Studio, MyCloud, MyLibrary, MyNet, Netflix, a so - called People hub, Polaris Office, Press
Reader, TegraZone Games and Zinio's magazine r
Reader, TegraZone Games and
Zinio's
magazine readerreader.
Zinio has reportedly confirmed that it is set to bring its
magazine reader app to RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook platform within the next few weeks.
In addition to the Kobo eReading app, the Vox comes with Press
Reader for newspapers and
Zinio for
magazines.
The
Readers Hub is broken into three sections: News (powered by Press Display), which has a seven - issue trial, Books (powered by Kobo), and
Magazines (powered by
Zinio).