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I 34 f you were to listen
exclusively to the US news, you’d think that digital newsstands were solely an Apple-driven American technology.
Yet readers in countries
the world over are reading digital content via a variety of newsstand apps – and via a plethora of pay models.
To date, arguably the most successful
newsstand app is the oldest: Zinio. Founded at the beginning of the current digital age – i.e., as Apple was launching the first MacBooks with real Windows- beating potential circa 2001 – Zinio was the first true digital distribution company for large media corporations.
Complete with early digital rights
management technology (DRM), Zinio took existing content from clients and