With the advent of tablets and e-readers, the traditional market for magazines might seem to be on the decline. Two men thought otherwise and have created Magzter, a platform for increasing readership and sales — and have met with amazing success.

Magzter Is a Digital Magazines Giant that Has Come from Nowhere (Pandodaily) Based in Asia, this cloud-based, cross-platform app has already attracted 7 million users- and is now adding 1 million new users per month..

Okay, you probably know of Apple's iOS Newsstand, and you might have heard that Google is planning to launch its own newsstand for Android – but have you heard of Magzter?

It's a cloud-based, cross-platform magazine platform that launched in 2011 and has 7 million users, a number that's now growing at a rate of 1 million per month. Its reach is largest in Asia and extends into even China and the Middle East, but it also claims 2 million users in the US. It hosts more than 1,5000 magazines from 600 publishers on its platform, and now it is coming at the US with a vengeance.

Hearst is allowing all 21 of its magazines to be sold via the Magzter digital newsstand, becoming the first of the big US publishing houses to affiliate with the company that has largely been working in Europe and Asia.

General Aviation Security, the world's only magazine to focus on the unique security and safety issues for the general aviation community, is now distributed by Magzter and available in multiple electronic formats.

Magzter is an upstart digital magazine company that is looking to give Zinio and Next Issue a run for their money. In the last few weeks, the company has signed on a number of publications, such as Maxim and Newsweek. Today, Magzter has announced that Hearst has signed on and will contribute all of its U.S. titles, and some of its international ones, onto the platform.

Magzter, one of a burgeoning sector of digital magazine newsstands, has been courting the North American market, recently signing Maxim and Newsweek. The company just landed another big fish in Hearst, which has put all of its U.S. titles, and some of its international ones, onto the platform.

The Sun Runner Magazine will now be available to enjoy on iPads, iPhones, Androids, and other tablets and smart phones starting with our 2013 Desert Treasures Issue. The Sun Runner is available internationally for single issue downloads and subscriptions through Magzter, the Digital Magazine Store.

The arrival of Magzter and Amazon is going to change books in this country. Right now, the book business is having a tough time. Except me. I am selling more books than ever before and all over the world. I've got a theory on that. I think in this flux, the public wants to stay with people they feel safe with, so it is the young authors who are suffering. I can't handle these endless books about women meeting men and getting married, the erotica rubbish and vampire stories. It's like the end of the world for good writing.

SIGNS of middle age were obvious at a recent gathering of Nasscom, the club for India's giant IT industry, which now has sales of $100 billion and is dominated by outsourcing firms. The venue was a hotel in Mumbai, a five-star fortress of foyers and finger food. The guests of honour were politicians. Grey-haired, well-fed executives sat and talked in jargon. It was hard to spot anyone close to India's median age of 26. Things have come a long way since 1981 when Infosys, a bellwether Indian IT firm, was founded in a flat by seven hungry engineers with $250.

Magzter is the culmination of the joint efforts of Indian tech entrepreneurs Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan, and while it may be a relatively a new kid on the world digital publishing block, it is already aiming for the sky. The company is setting its sights on being the world's biggest digital magazine store catering to the booming tablet market, but has also dropped hints about getting into the ebook business at a later stage.

Forbes Africa magazine publishes it latest edition with its first ever digital issue, enabling readers to enjoy the digital magazine on the go. The app went live on Friday, 1 March and is available on Windows 8, Android and iOS platforms in association with Magzter.

Speaking on the occasion, Sid Wahi, project director of Forbes Africa said, This development is in line with our long-term strategy in making our content ubiquitous and available globally.

One of the cool things that you can do on an iPad is read magazines. When the slate was first announced, it was touted as one of the main selling points, but it’s a feature that seems to have flown under the radar for the most part. Sure, Apple launched Newsstand, but most articles written on it are simply directions for tricking iOS into hiding it in a folder. Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way, as there are some fantastic apps for magazine lovers.

Apple's Newsstand is a great vehicle for tablet-based magazines, but it ignores foreign titles and is of no use the growing base of Android-based tablets.

That's the thinking behind Magzter, a 2 year-old company that has amassed 7 million readers across the globe. The company, which aims to be the "YouTube of magazines," recently snagged Maxim in the U.S. and plans to start offering Fast Company and Inc next month. Eventually, Magzter hopes to offer e-books as well and compete head-on with Amazon.

18 months ago, when Magzter was looking to pitch the idea of an online magazine store, specific to mobile devices, not many gave them a chance. Having persevered with the idea, the Magzter team is finally seeing large scale traction for their app. Assisted by a booming tablet market and clever user and device targeting, Magzter is one of the top apps on the iOS store and boasts of over a 6 million user base across platforms.

Magzter, the world's largest and fastest growing cross-platform digital magazine store, has scaled up to become the top grosser on the Apple app store. It is among the first Indian apps store to feature in the top grossers list across various app stores. Even in the number of daily downloads, Magzter has crossed other reading apps like Flipboard,Pulse,Zite etc. Magzter's most recent inclusion is Windows 8. Magzter is the entrepreneurial venture of Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan who saw an opportunity to do something over and above the edge in the digital magazine industry. In an interview with Dataquest, they talked about their venture aspirations.

In a short period of time, the US based company Magzter, run by two Indian founders, has become the world's fastest growing cross-platform digital newsstand, selling magazines and books, with an app that gives consumers access to magazines from around the world at attractive prices.

Since its inception 18 months ago, Magzter has crossed six million users, with more than 1,500 magazines and working with more than 500 global publishers, helping them monetize their content across the digital world.

Online magazine store Magzter founded by Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan and Girish Ramdas has apparently found success in the formula & are working harder to add features & products to this venture. So far the web-company has managed to secure over 6 Million users & monthly downloads are crossing 1 Million, all within 9 months.

New York-based digital magazine store Magzter Inc. claims to have more than doubled its user base to six million in the last nine months and counts 35 thousand downloads a day, on an average.

Magzter, set up in 2011 by Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan and Girish Ramdas, has been available in India since October last year. It now has around 1,500 magazines from India, Singapore, the UAE (Dubai), Malaysia, the US and the UK. Hosted on Amazon's Cloud platform, Magzter also enables publishers to digitise their publications and sell those to global users. Although the digitisation platform is free for all publishers, there is a 50-50 revenue sharing on sales.

The Recession of 2009 sounded the death knell on a host of established print magazines. With around 500 of them biting the dust, traditional print media houses are bogged down by adversity owing to rising print and distribution costs that are plaguing the industry today. Moreover gaining traction in readership with print magazines is proving to be a slow and costly affair in the current scenario. Several magazines found solace in the digital space but this move also comes with its share of pressures and risk of relying on a new platform.

Chennai Lad Girish Ramdas always aimed for the Bullseye, be it rifle shooting, tennis or even setting up new ventures. No wonder the 36 year old CEO of Magzter.com, world's first online digital magazine store, pipped Angrybirds to become the most downloaded app on iPads in 2012, within just two years of inception.

Magzter, an Indian magazine store app which started in 2011, was the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store charts in Asia, in December 2012. Magzter has more than 1,000 magazines on its virtual shelves, with a strong subscriber base of more than 5 million subscribers and readers globally. And all this was achieved in a span of 17 months, with 45 employees.

Magzter is a unique Global Digital Mobile Magazine Store and Newsstand that makes it easy for Magazine Publishers to offer Digital Editions of their Titles, and even easier for readers to enjoy them. Magzter aims to publish magazines digitally and make the same available on various mobile devices and tablets through a subscription model.Kompella Portfolio Investment Advice joins hands with Magzter.com.

Two Indians have "shot down" the Angry Birds with their magazine app, Magzter. Chennai-based entrepreneur Girish Ramdas along with co-founder, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, has trashed every best-selling app out there with Magzter which has been downloaded by over 4.5 million users, becoming a best-seller in Asia.

Mr. Girish Ramdas, CEO and Co-founder of Magzter emerged as "Person of the Year 2012" by competing with 10 top names who were a rare combination of success and supreme intelligence from different spheres of work like Aamir Khan, Francisco D'Souza, Ratan Tata, N Chandrasekaran, etc. The participants were shortlisted for their contribution to the usage, propagation and contribution to technology and the contest ran for over three weeks through an online vote. Mr. Girish Ramdas bagged the prestigious award with over 12,000 votes and emerged as a clear winner.

Entreprenuer Girish Ramdas is the mastermind behing Magzter, the best selling app in Asia

Two Indian have "shot down" the Angry Birds with their magazine app,Magzter.

Chennai based entrepreneur Girish Ramdas along with co-founder, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan has trashed every best-selling app out there with Magzter which has been downloaded by over 5 million users, becoming a best seller in Asia.

It has been an incredible journey into the digital world for 37-year-old Girish Ramdas, CEO and co-founder, Magzter. The young and dynamic Indian entrepreneur poised to be a global leader, Ramdas has scripted his success through sheer hardwork and passion.

Magzter, an Indian magazine store app was the top grosser in Apple's app store in Asia. Beating worldwide favourites like Angry Birds, NY Times and Temple Run., the app has now 4.5 millon global users.

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A week ago, an Indian magazine store app topped the Apple App Store charts in Asia for raking in the most money.

On its way up, it even surpassed international favorites and long-standing grossers like Angry Birds, NY Times for iPad, Clash of Clans, Frontline Commando, Quick Office Pro HD, Paradise Cove, FIFA 13, Need for Speed, Temple Run, Documents To Go, Poker by Zynga and Zinio, by bringing its total number of global users to 4.5 million.

Indian e-commerce is starting only now. It looks like a bubble because people are not earning a lot of money; they are instead burning money to get users. But they are creating a huge awareness. Consumers who never thought of e-commerce before are today buying online. The market is very large. It's only a question of time. I don't think the bubble is going to burst.

Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan and Girish Ramdas are busy traveling to different countries across the world and meeting publishers of all genres and kinds. After running a software company, Dot Com Infoway, and a south Indian film magazine, Galatta Cinema, for almost a decade, the duo decided to merge both ideas and start something which would be bigger than anything they had pursued before.

They decided to set foot into the $150 billion digital magazine publishing industry, which has a lot of untapped potential still. Post 2009, when the iPad and other similar devices swarmed the market, the duo saw an opportunity to do something in the digital magazine publishing space.

Magzter, an online magazine store developed by two Chennai-based entrepreneurs Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, is now the top grosser on the Apple App store. Magzter is a global mobile magazine store through which one can browse, buy, and read magazines on their iPads and iPhones.

Since last Thursday, Magzter has overtaken international favorites and long standing grossers like Angry Birds, NY Times for iPad, Clash of Clans, Frontline Commando, Quick Office Pro HD, Paradise Cove, FIFA 13, Need for Speed, Temple Run, Documents To Go, Poker by Zynga and Zinio by bringing its total number of global users to 4.5 million, according to media reports.

New York based startup, Magzter, the world’s largest and fastest growing cross-platform digital newsstand and online magazine store stands at #1 having overtaken international favorites and long standing grossers like Angry Birds, NY Times for iPad, Clash of Clans, Frontline Commando, Quick Office Pro HD, Paradise Cove, FIFA 13, Need for Speed, Temple Run and Documents To Go, Poker by Zynga and Zinio among others bringing its total number of global users to 4.5 million!. Even in the number of daily downloads; Magzter has crossed other reading apps like Flipboard, Pulse, Zite and others.

Magzter, the online magazine store, has become the top-grossing iPad app in Asia, reports The Times of India.

The app was launched 17 months ago, but has received huge traction over the past month, due to some Facebook sharing features that were added to the app. "Now, if you like the cover of a magazine, you can share it on Facebook, and if your friends like it, they can click to come to our store to buy it. This has had a major viral effect” said Girish Ramdas, co-founder and CEO of Magzter.

BANGALORE: Magzter, an online magazine store developed by two Chennai-based entrepreneurs Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, has become the top grosser on the Apple iPad.

Since last Thursday, Magzter has overtaken international favourites and long standing grossers like Angry Birds, NY Times for iPad, Clash of Clans and Frontline Commando. On Tuesday, Clash of Clans had briefly recovered its No. 1 spot, but when TOI last looked at the list of top grossers on the iPad, Magzter was back at the top. The iPad has over 700,000 apps.

You want to read an international magazine, but cannot afford the annual subscription. You don’t mind reading it digitally. Then, you should check out if the magazine you want is available on Magzter, which calls itself a digital-magazine store.

More than anything, the price will surprise you. For, subscribing to the US print copy of Maxim will cost you $64.99 a year. On Magzter, you can get it for just $14.99, a 75 per cent discount. You can read the magazine on any device — desktop, laptop and tablet, and soon on your smart phone too.

After twenty years of existence, opensource has made its mark in enterprise and mobile technologies. The next battleground for open source is the cloud.

A digital magazine store and news-stand application provider has brought down approximately 90% of their cost by hosting its content using open source on the cloud. Magzter is a content delivery network which allows various publishers like Maxim (US), Haymarket media group, Forbes and even Indian Magazines like India Today and Outlook to upload their content on its portal.

The world of retailing is transforming itself from real shops to virtual shops to be visited online on the internet. Books too are no longer physical in nature, but have metamorphosed into e- books and apps downloadable from the internet. Girish Ramdas, Co-founder and CEO, Magzter, examines the factors behind the emergence of e-books and e- magazines, in a conversation with Monisha Rao.

With the proliferation of digital devices such as tablets and smartphones, the medium for accessing traditional media is seeing a shift. We are witnessing a growth in digital editions of magazines, which have so far thronged newsstands.

According to Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, Co-Founder and CEO, Magzter, an estimated 60 lakh people in India use various platforms to read digital magazines.

India's largest frequent flyer programme, Jet Airways' JetPrivilege, today announced exciting new opportunities for its members to earn JetPrivilege Miles, with the addition of six new partners in the ever expanding publishing industry or sector.

Jet Airways is proud to partner with Magzter.com, the world's largest and fastest growing global cross-platform digital news stand and online magazine store.

The Asian Publishing Convention (APC) has announced the 56 finalists for the Asian Publishing Awards 2012. This is a premium shortlist by the international judges from a strong field of 157 entries involving 34 media companies from 8 countries. Winners will be awarded during the Gala Dinner and Awards Night at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara on November 30, 2012.

The Publishing Awards co-sponsor is Magzter. Magzter is a global digital mobile magazine store and newsstand that makes it easy for publishers to sell digital editions of their magazines and books and even easier for readers to enjoy them. Magzter supports formats starting from simple PDFs to fully interactive HTML5 magazines. Magzter is available across platforms on tablets or smartphones, whether it's Apple iOS (iPad//iPad mini/iPhone) or Android (Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Xoom, Google Nexus 7, etc.) or Windows 8 or just online on the web using your browser at www.magzter.com.

Two Indian software guys are out to revolutionize the global digital magazine publishing industry.

Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan and Girish Ramdas are busy traveling to different countries across the world and meeting publishers of all genres and kinds. After running a software company,Dot Com Infoway, and a South Indian film magazine – Galatta Cinema, for almost a decade , the duo decided to merge both ideas and start something which would be bigger than anything that has pursued before.

World's largest and fastest growing cross-platform, digital newsstand and online magazine store Magzter, is now available on the Windows 8 App Store.

While the app itself is free to download, users can choose from a large catalog of paid and free magazines from across the globe with up to 90% discounts from the print subscription prices.

Your go-to guide of what to download and why.

Girish Ramdas is a multipreneur, if you would agree. Serial entrepreneurs hop from one business to another and they run one business at a time but Girish runs multiple businesses at a time. Hailing from Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, nothing seems to stop this dynamic thinking entrepreneur.

Once the entrepreneurial bug bites you, it's difficult to stay put for a long time. You take the plunge without thinking too much. Opportunities find him rather than him going after them...

Over the last year or so, many of you have asked us when we would have a tablet version of the magazine. In the last few months, as tablets have gotten better and cheaper, the frequency of that question has grown. We hear you.

I'm very pleased to say we are now available as an e-magazine via the Magzter store for both Android and Apple tablets.

The concept of media convergence is ever evolving, thanks to the increase in internet accessibility and technological magic. Every media looks up to the digital platform for better reach and most importantly, great interactivity.

In a conversation with exchange4media, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, Co-Founder and President, Magzter elaborates on how penetration of new electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets will lead to a whole new consumer experience in the digital space.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Mr. Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, Co-founder and President of Magzter.

In a very short time span Magzter has seen tremendous success. What are the main reasons for this meteoric rise?

Magzter has a self-service platform with real time MIS reporting for publishers. Managing digital magazines is very easy and you can watch the metrics real time. Also the availability of the magazines across multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Web makes it even more attractive. From consumers stand point purchasing magazine is seamless and we have a concept called "Never Lost" where the consumers will never loose any subscriptions that they purchase even if they happen to lose their device.

• · Well designed and easy to navigate within the app.
• · Easy availability of Indian regional publications
• · Access to multimedia content
• · Free download on Google play and iTunes

Magzter, the global digital mobile magazine store has raised series A funding from Indo-US Venture Partners. The amount of funding has not been disclosed.

Founded by Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan and Girish Ramdas in July 2011, the digital mega store provides readers with over 350 magazines from various fields on its digital mobile platform. It is also aims to offer readers some 10,000 to 20,000 magazine editions and periodicals from round the globe.

Screen through the apps downloaded in most smart phones in India and you'll find usual medley of Angry birds,Dropbox, Amazon Kindle, Whatsapp and the likes.

Most of these apps would qualify as absolute essentials on a smart phone, to justify the use of one, if not, if not anything else! But for a country which is slated to become....

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Magzter Inc. that owns Magzter – The Global Digital and Mobile Magazine Store and Newsstand today announced that it has started adding its client magazines onto Apple’s latest iOS5 Newsstand.

Magzter just launched iOS5 Newsstand compatible magazine apps for India Today, the largest selling English magazine publication from India and for Galatta Cinema, one of India’s popular movie magazines both of which cater to the 200 million Indians who read English language magazines in India and overseas.