NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Feb 11, 2016) - Magzter, the largest and fastest-growing digital magazine store and newsstand in the world, with more than 28 million users globally, today announced a partnership with Time Inc. (
"We're thrilled to welcome the passionate audiences of these iconic brands to our digital newsstand," said Girish Ramdas, CEO of Magzter. "Media companies have begun to realize the advantages of our platform, and Magzter's focus on content discoverability and its slick user interface allow for a highly streamlined end-user experience."
Scott McAllister, Time Inc., SVP, Digital Marketing + Revenue, added, "We are always looking for new distribution platforms for our premium content. By partnering with Magzter, we're extending the reach of our brands to one of the most diverse audiences in the digital magazine media space."
Digital single copies and subscriptions of Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Entertainment Weekly, Essence, Food & Wine, Fortune, Golf, Health, InStyle, Money, People, People en Español, Stylewatch, Real Simple, Southern Living, Sports Illustrated, Sunset, This Old House, Time and Travel + Leisure will be available for purchase on the Magzter app starting today.
Since it was founded in 2011, Magzter has secured several strategic partnerships with the world's largest publishers, including Hearst, AMI, Newsweek and Condé Nast. The service added more than 1,500 titles in 2015 and houses the largest collection of digital magazines in the world, at 7,500+.
"Partnering with Magzter is now easier than ever since we just launched a new tool called 'MagFly,'" said Vijay Radhakrishnan, President and Co-Founder of Magzter. "The tool converts any format from publishers -- including XML, HTML, PDF -- to content that is readable on smart phones and tablets."
The Magzter app is FREE to download across Apple iOS, Android (Google Play), the web, Amazon App Store and Kindle Fire.
For more information about Magzter, please visit: http://www.magzter.com/.
About Magzter
Magzter Inc. is the world's largest and fastest-growing self-service, cross-platform digital magazine store and newsstand, with over 28 million digital consumers and more than 7,500 magazines from over 3,000 publishers. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in London, Paris, Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Mexico City, Chennai and Singapore and will soon expand to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers. Powered by its proprietary OREY Click Publishing System® that allows publishers to upload their magazines with a single touch, Magzter also enables them to publish interactive/audio-visual content in the magazine, as it supports HTML 5.
The FREE Magzter app is available on Apple iOS, Android (Google Play), the web, Amazon App Store and Kindle Fire and is expanding to more platforms soon. Users can buy their magazines on any of the above-named devices/platforms and can seamlessly port their purchases to any other devices, a feature unique to Magzter.
The company counts among its publisher customers some marquee names, including Hearst (USA), Condé Nast (USA), Newsweek (USA), AMI (USA), Dennis Publishing (UK), Haymarket (UK), Media24 (South Africa), Edipresse Asia (HK), India Today Group (India), WorldWide Media (India), Maxim Inc. (USA), Black Enterprise (USA), Singapore Press Holdings (Singapore), RBA (Spain), and Grupo Expansión (MX), and it has been rapidly expanding its publisher base with magazines from more than 40 countries, including the US, UK, Germany, Spain, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, making Magzter truly the #1 choice for magazine readers and publishers the world over.
For more information about Magzter, please visit: www.magzter.com.
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