Zinio is a company providing sales and distribution for popular magazines and books in a digital format over the internet. Zinio offers consumer and trade publishers a way to distribute and sell their printed publications digitally, to be read online or offline. Zinio also has marketing services and hosts various newsstands and bookstores to sell publications on behalf of publishers.

Zinio's available publications include categories such as business, education, travel, fashion, sports and adult. Zinio has offices in San Francisco and New York with several franchisees worldwide. The company is privately held by Gilvest LP, an investment entity owned by entrepreneur and renowned businessman David H.

Gilmour (Fiji Water, Barrick Gold, South Pacific Hotel Corp.). Zinio programs are required to access the magazines both online and offline. These programs utilize a combination of technology licensed from Adobe and Contentguard to protect the files with DRM. Zinio magazines leave a pale gray watermark on printed pages as a method of copy protection.

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