Which Digital Magazine Offers the Best Services?
Reader’s Digest, India Today, Grihshobha, Pratiyogita Darpan, or even Champak, we all grew up reading one magazine or the other! When was the last time you actually read a magazine, though? Or the last time you bought one? Or even held one?! If you’re anything like us, you might not even remember! People have stopped subscribing to offline magazines and newspapers, and prefer online subscriptions instead. On realising this consumer behaviour, many companies ventured into the world of online magazines.
Magzter is a global, self-service, digital magazine newsstand, that offers its users more than 12,000 magazines from over 4,000 publishers. The company was founded in 2011 by Girish Ramdas and Vijaykumar Radhakrishnan.
The Magzter app is available on several devices. Magzter has a revenue-shared business model, which helps publishers distribute the new edition of their magazines to their readers globally, without any upfront fee.
Online magazines enjoy some special benefits which their offline versions don’t. You can access them anytime, anywhere, without having to lug them around with you. You can also choose from many options and genres. It also makes it easier for publishers to make their magazine available to a wider audience. Online magazines can also make use of value-adding features that print can’t, such as audio, video, animations, and much more, elevating the overall experience of magazine ‘reading’.
Magzter has fuelled a drastic shift for publishing houses to switch from print to digital.
The readers can browse, preview, and buy magazines of their choice with just a click. They can also read magazines on 5 different devices, simultaneously. Apart from these features, when publishers put out any audio or visual content on any of their digital edition platforms, Magzter delivers it to their subscribers without any hassle. Magzter is also available not just on your iPhone, Android, or web page, but also on storefronts such as Amazon App Store.
Just like your cosy bookshelf in the corner of your house, Magzter is always perfectly stocked. You can shop by category, language, or region, or just search as per your preference and Magzter will deliver the results, and magazines to you.
Magzter offers 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months subscription packages. The Magzter Gold 3-month offer costs ₹ 399.
Other Digital Magazines Platforms
Apart from Magzter, Zinio is a digital magazine platform where readers can subscribe to only one magazine or even buy an individual issue, which obviously, makes it a worse deal. Zinio offers special deals to their readers, and allows them to read some free articles.
JioMags, a part of JioNews, is giving longer-established players tough competition in the e-magazine arena. It is an application which allows its users to read magazines and explore multiple categories.
JioMags also offers readers an offline reading experience. You can just download your favourite picks and read them anywhere. It also provides the option of ‘My Library’ where you can add, organise, and customise your personal magazine collections and store your bookmarks. Other than this, JioMags offers magazines in a variety of languages. You can select your preference from the ‘Navigational Drawer’ option. You can also share comments publicly and remarks on the magazines. JioMags is currently available on Android, iPhone, and Windows, and is merged with the JioNews app. The subscription is free if you are a Jio Prime member.
People are moving away from magazines, and our reading is that online magazine apps can really entice them back to the good ol’ days of leisurely flipping through them.
We hope this article helped you find the perfect platform to cater to your needs. If you like to use any other app for reading magazines, please tell us in the comments!
