BARCELONA, Spain, January 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zinio, the world's largest digital newsstand, is extending its free reading offer to the global online community. From January 18, 2011 to January 31, 2011, attendees and journalists at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco, CA can pick up free access cards at the show from Zinio representatives. For those unable to attend the event, Zinio is extending its free offer, and scheduling virtual demo's to showcase its latest enhancements to its award winning, multi-platform accessible, digital reading newsstand and applications.

As digital reading and the publishing industry's transformation continues to be a compelling and popular topic for the blogosphere, relevant bloggers and journalists worldwide that profile Zinio will be able to offer free single issues of magazines, and discounts on tech magazines to their readers. Bloggers will receive a simple discount code for their fans that gives them a free issue chosen from Zinio's massive global online storefront, and a code for 20% off on many technology magazines featured in the Zinio storefront, for a limited time.

Zinio's digital reading newsstand, offers reading fans access to magazine subscriptions, single issues, back issues and buy-it-once, read-it-anywhere access to over 3,000 titles from around the world. Powered by its UNITY(TM) platform, Zinio is accessible on any computer, iPhone, iPad, and select Android devices. Many of the titles available in the Zinio digital newsstand showcase enhanced content with animated graphic and video capabilities.

"The demand for digital reading is a global phenomenon," said Joan Sola, President of Zinio International. "Digital access to content makes borders porous and invites global exploration and discovery of cultures, information and entertainment not easily available offline. The time is right to unveil our plans for Zinio 2.0 which promises to introduce a string of superb enhancements around personalization, bookmarking, clipping, social sharing, and we believe will take global content discovery to a new level."

To schedule an exclusive demo of Zinio's 2.0 app for iPad, or to request access to Zinio's free reading code, and for 20% off select technology magazine subscription code, please contact Jeanniey Mullen at jmullen@zinio.com and/or Lisa Kornblatt at lkornblatt@sspr.com.