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Vodafone India inked a pact with digital magazine newsstand Magzter, which will give the subscribers access to over 100,000 issues of 4,000 plus best-selling national and international magazines. The service is free for a month post which the customers can continue the services starting at Rs 49/month. View full article..
July 28th
Vodafone has announced that it is partnering with Magzter to offer digital magazines to customers. Through Magzter, Vodafone subscriber will have access to over 100,000 issues from over 4,000 best-selling national and international magazines. View full article..
July 27th
In a new development, Vodafone India has partnered with Magzter to offer a vast collection of digital magazines to its users. Magzter's subscription is free to all Vodafone customers for one month, after which they will have to pay a nominal monthly fee starting at Rs. 49. View full article..
July 27th
According to Girish Ramdas, co-founder and CEO, Magzter prides itself as an organisation with an inclusive culture. The company currently has 20 women employees out of a total of 65, on board, in their Chennai office. View full article..
July 26th
Chennai-based digital magazine platform Magzter on Monday announced introduction of paid menstrual leave for its women employees. Magzter will offer an optional one day paid leave, every month, for all female employees which can be availed on the first day or the second day of their period. View full article..
July 25th
Magzter, a digital magazine news stand based in Chennai, has brought out a paid menstrual leave policy for women in their organisation. The Chennai-based organisation announced that they will offer an optional one-day paid leave every month, to all the women employees in the organisation, which can be availed on the first day or second day of their period View full article..
July 25th
The Spanish edition of Selecciones Reader's Digest is now available on Magzter. Published by Global Family Editions, the magazine inspires, informs and entertains millions of people with its wide variety of stories about people, health, humour, adventures and world events. View full article..
July 24th
Mass Connect has added three of its best-selling titles - L'Officiel Thailand, World of Watches Thailand and L'Optimum Thailand to Magzter digital magazine newsstand. These magazines are now all set to reach millions of Thai-speaking readers all over the world. View full article..
July 19th
Ediţia din România a publicaţiei americane Forbes a încheiat o înţelegere cu platforma digitală Magzter, un chioş digital care distribuie peste 9.000 de publicaţii de pe Glob. View full article..
July 7th
Three public libraries in Chennai will now offer access to e-magazines through Magzter, an online platform that has a collection of magazines representing a wide range of subjects. View full article..
June 16th
Using the library's computers, visitors can access thousands of international magazines via Magzter. View full article..
May 11th
The media company has already been publishing 50+ titles through the digital magazine newsstand. View full article..
April 27th
Recently, the library has subscribed the Magzter, the largest digital newsstand with over 9000 magazines. There are also other proposals like providing wifi inside the library and subscribing to e-books. View full article..
April 13th
Magzter adds another edition of Vogue magazine to its catalogue. The platform, which has been already digitally publishing Vogue magazine from the US, India, Australia, Turkey, Germany, China, Russia, Mexico, Ukraine and Thailand, has now brought on board Vogue Arabia. View full article..
April 3rd
Published by Entrepreneur Media, the magazine is targeted at business owners and key decision makers. View full article..
March 10th
Australian publisher Pacific Magazines has added its titles to Magzter, including Men's Health, Women's Health, InStyle, Marie Claire and New Idea. View full article..
February 27th
On the other side are emerging IT stars Girish Ramdas of Magzter, a digital magazine service app. Headquartered in New York, the entire back-office work is done in Chennai. View full article..
January 29th
Magzter has added another edition of Hello! magazine to its catalogue. Magzter, which has been already digitally publishing Hello! magazine from the UK, India and Thailand, and Hola! magazine from Spain and Mexico, has now brought on board Hello! Georgia. View full article..
January 5th
Music apps Gaana, Saavn and Sing! Karaoke featured on the top-10 revenue earners’ list from India, along with Magzter, Skype, and Fingerprint Login. View full article..
January 18th
"Shape and Muscle & Fitness are two of the most respected fitness magazine brands in the world, which come up with effective workout techniques and nutrition advices in every issue. By partnering with Magzter, these magazines from Philippines will now spread their wings globally and inspire more people to stay fit and healthy," said Vijay Radhakrishnan, President, Magzter Inc. View full article..
December 20th
Estefani Acosta es la Directora de Marketing y Ventas en México de un tipo de compañía que hasta hace algunos años no existía, lo que prueba la velocidad a la que están cambiando las cosas en prácticamente todos los aspectos de la vida. En Magzter puedes ver el contenido de miles de revistas y sin embargo Magzter en si mismo no es una editorial en el sentido tradicional de la palabra, pero mejor dejemos que Estefani nos explique en esta entrevista realizada en un lugar emblemático como lo es la Librería de Fondo de Cultura Económica de la Condesa View full article..
December 7th
En entrevista con Expansión, Scott Verchin, VP de ventas de Magzter, adelanta que la plataforma ve hacia futuro el desarrollo de nuevas líneas de ingreso, entre ellas, la posibilidad de integrar mecanismos publicitarios y soluciones para vender productos a partir de las revistas con las que tienen un acuerdo. View full article..
November 30th
South African publisher, Untapped World Publishing, has added three more titles - Men's Fitness South Africa, Maxim Nigeria and Maxim Middle East, to Magzter. The company already publishes Maxim South Africa and Objekt South Africa on the platform. View full article..
November 18th
Hubert Burda Media Russia is known for publishing the most acclaimed magazine brands in Russian and its partnership with Magzter is sure to take its magazines to Russian-speaking readers all over the world. View full article..
November 7th
Для расширения онлайн аудитории по всему миру Hearst Shkulev Ukraine, один из лидирующих издательств в Украине, начал сотрудничество с Magzter, самым масштабным онлайн магазином журналов. Hearst Shkulev Ukraine начал работу с Magzter по двум изданиям - Cosmopolitan Ukraine и Harper's Bazaar Ukraine и, в скором времени, будет добавлен журнал ELLE Ukraine. View full article..
October 11th
Magzter ofrece revistas de un modo interactivo para que sus lectores no pierdan la lustrosa experiencia de la lectura y hacer esta actividad aún más entretenida agregando interactividad. View full article..
October 6th
Magzter's growth rate, since it was launched in 2011, has been nearly 300 per cent. Magzter offers thousands of magazines in international and Indian languages, including certain niche publications that would otherwise be very difficult to find online.
September 1st
Colleges in India will now get to have their own FREE MOBILE MAGAZINE AND NEWS READING APP thanks to Magzter [the world's largest digital magazine newsstand] and Nuggets Media. Students will also be able to read a variety of magazines for FREE on the Magzter App. Magzter, a New York-based start-up headed by Girish Ramdas who hails from Chennai and Nuggets Media, a Chennai-based start-up headed by Saravan Krishna M, have partnered to propagate the Indian Government’s Digital India initiative among the educational institutions in India. View full article..
September 13th
世界の雑誌８２００誌以上が配信され、１５０数カ国３０００万人以上が利用している世界最大の電子雑誌配信サイトMagzterがいよいよ日本に本格的に営業を開始。日本の読者に世界中の雑誌を読み放題のサービスを提供し、出版社にはレベニューシェアによる全世界向けの電子雑誌配信のクラウドサービスを提供します。 View full article..
September 5th
Magzter’s new ezRead 2.0 revolutionizes the digital magazine experience by presenting magazine pages in responsive layouts that are automatically optimized for any size screen – smartphones as well as tablets. No longer is awkward panning and zooming required to read a digital magazine article on a small screen! View full article..
August 4th
What’s better for an app developer than receiving a Global Mobile App Summit (GMASA) award in front of a whole lot of tech fraternity? Magzter won the 'Best App' award under News and Magazines category at GMASA 2016. View full article..
July 8th
Services like Magzter offer unlimited reading for a flat rate ($8 a month). There are current and back issues of hundreds of mainstream titles. View full article..
June 24th
With a catalogue of over 7,500 magazines and top news stories of the day presented in a beautiful fashion, Magzter is a must-have app for news junkies. All the magazines are beautifully formatted for the screen you are reading it on and Magzter claims to be the first app that lets you create playlists of articles whatever your interests are. With categories ranging from news, politics and technology to travel, fashion and photography, Magzter has it all. View full article..
June 4th
Magzter offers full-page interactive ads that can be inserted into any digital magazine, irrespective of the device the user is reading from. The ads are non-intrusive to users and advertisers get the best exposure since their ads will have the full 'share of voice' on the ad page with no other competing ads. The non-intrusive nature of the ads served by Magzter Ad Network is such that the ads get high click-through rates of up to 20 per cent unlike traditional web inventory, where click-through rates are lower than one per cent. View full article..
May 27th
Having brought on board 7,800 magazines and 1.6 million subscribers, Magzter is now looking at the advertising revenue stream seriously. Vijay Radhakrishnan, Co-founder and President of Magzter, spoke with Business Today on the company's plans. "We see bigger growth from advertising. In the next three years, we hope to generate $100 million in revenues," he said. View full article..
May 4th
Buoyed by increasing number of paid subscribers, digital magazine newsstand Magzter is looking to raise $30 million in series C funding to expand operations. "Magzter has grown today in a one of its kind service with 7,800 magazines from over 3,200 publications around the world. We have 1.6 million unique paying customers. So, we have acquired the critical mass," Vijay Radhakrishnan, co-founder of Magzter told ET. Radhakrishnan also said the company aims to be cash positive in the next few years. View full article..
April 16th
The digital newsstand Magzter today announced the creation of an ad network for the magazine titles inside its iOS and Android mobile apps. View full article..
April 14th
Digital magazine startup Magzter Inc is raising a third round of funding and also rolling out new revenue streams. View full article..
April 13th
Playboy publishes their magazine without any nude photography and Magzter has apparently decided that now it can enter its revenue-share digital newsstand. View full article..
April 8th
Magzter, the world's largest digital magazine newsstand, today announced a digital distribution partnership with Playboy magazine's US edition. The recently redesigned Playboy magazine includes a modern editorial and design approach and, for the first time in its 62-year history, no longer features nudity in its pages. View full article..
April 8th
Five years into digitising magazines across the world, Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan's Magzter, says it is on track to achieve the venerable $1 billion valuation in two years time to join the `unicorn' club'. View full article..
March 25th
Magzter has now brought on board Hearst Magazines UK, the publisher of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, ELLE and Harper's Bazaar. View full article..
March 18th
Bauer Consumer Media UK has inked a distribution deal aimed at accelerating the growth of its digital editions with Magzter, the World's largest digital magazine newsstand. View full article..
March 17th
Easy Taxi, la aplicación transporte de pasajeros en auto más grande en América Latina y Magzter, la tienda de revistas digitales más grande del mundo, se asocian para promover un servicio integrado, combinando la movilidad urbana y el acceso a la información. View full article..
March 11th
Digital newsstand Magzter is launching carrier billing as a new payment method for selling magazines on its platform in India. View full article..
March 8th
Magtzer pone las publicaciones a tu disposición como si de un enorme quiosco virtual se tratase y tú sólo tienes que seleccionar tus intereses (moda, deportes, estilo de vida, viajes, educación,…). View full article..
February 29th
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. (NYSE: TIME), one of the world's leading media companies. View full article..
February 12th
Magzter, the largest digital magazine newsstand, today announced a partnership with Time Inc. The deal will add 20 Time Inc. brands to the app, including Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, InStyle, People, Sports Illustrated and Time. View full article..
February 12th
The AAM is rolling out a new circulation category called “Multi-Title Digital Programs,” which will track circulation through services including Texture, Readly, Magzter and Z-Pass. View full article..
February 1st
The app has been completely redesigned with a new focus. Instead of full magazines, the app is now built around single articles that you’d like to read. View full article..
January 21st
Magzter has a new layout, design and functionality, making it article-focused, not title-focused. Articles will be optimized to your device. No more PDF’d stories that are clunky to navigate and hard to read. View full article..
January 20th
Magzter Gold: Revistas ilimitadas y artículos agrupados en categorías por 119 pesos al mes View full article..
January 20th
Magzter, a digital magazine newsstand, announced yesterday the launch of its version 6.0, boasting instant access to magazine articles optimized for reading on smartphones and tablets. View full article..
January 20th
Digital magazine store, Magzter, has announced a redesign of its platform. Magzter 6.0 optimises magazine articles for smartphones and tablets, and allows them to be read instantly. View full article..
January 20th
With its latest update, Magzter is unveiling a more article-centric way to browse its library of digital magazines. View full article..
January 19th
Magzter has joined the rush to disaggregate content from magazine titles inside its digital newsstand, offering articles now reformatted for a better digital device reading experience. View full article..
January 18th
Con más de 27 millones de usuarios en todo el mundo, Magzter es la aplicación que deben tener los que gustan leer y estar bien informados. View full article..
January 10th
With technology growing in leaps and bounds, Girish Ramdas gives us a lowdown on all the exciting innovations we can look forward to in 2016. View full article..
January 7th
Magzter Gold offers a much larger selection of magazines than Texture (over 3500) at a lower price ($8/month). View full article..
December 21st
La tienda de revistas digitales más grande del mundo, Magzter, anunció hoy que ha abierto oficinas en México en busca de ampliar su oferta editorial y llegar a nuevos públicos. View full article..
December 14th
Magzter, a digital magazine store and newsstand with more than 27 million users globally, announced that it has opened offices in South Africa. View full article..
December 17th
After launching Magzter GOLD, their “all-you-can-read” Netflix-like digital magazine service earlier this year, Magzter has announce that their GOLD subscriber base has increased by 200% every month. View full article..
October 6th
After Nine Months, the 'Netflix' of Digital Magazines Announces 1,800 Percent Growth in Subscriber Base; Drops Price to $7.99 per Month and Offers New Features to Boost Engagement and Make Content Discoverable View full article..
October 6th
After Nine Months, the 'Netflix' of Digital Magazines Announces 1,800 Percent Growth in Subscriber Base; Drops Price to $7.99 per Month and Offers New Features to Boost Engagement and Make Content Discoverable View full article..
October 6th
The digital newsstand service Magzter announced today that it is reducing the price of its all-you-can-read magazine service to $7.99. The company also said that its service now boasts over 3,000 magazine titles. View full article..
October 6th
Magzter updated its iOS app, adding a clipping feature. View full article..
August 3rd
In a first of a three part series on digital magazines Chris Price looks at some of the key decisions facing publishers View full article..
August 10th
Cricket Media Partners with Magzter to Expand International Access to Cricket Digital Brands. All 11 Cricket Media brands to be made available to Magzter's audience of 26+ million readers in 200+ countries and territories . View full article..
August 10th
Dad And Grad Tech Gift Ideas Include ... Suitcase? View full article..
May 27th
TOP 7 SANITY-KEEPING APPS FOR TRAVELING. View full article..
April 16th
It’s so hot that you may prefer to stay indoors. If you enjoy reading or music, these apps could help you sail through summer. Magzter is a popular service which offers Indian as well as international digital magazines. View full article..
May 5th
The Media Publishers Association Singapore (MPAS) has confirmed that global digital magazine newsstand and book store Magzter as a sponsor of its media publishing awards event taking place in Singapore on 11 May 2015 at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore. View full article..
April 14th
With 25 million users and more than 30,000 downloads per day, the world’s largest digital magazine service app Magzter’s growth rate, since it was launched in 2011, has been nearly 300%. Magzter offers thousands of magazines in international and Indian languages, including certain niche publications that would otherwise be very difficult to find online. It has recently added book titles to its offerings. Ramdas wants to make 1 million books downloadable from his platform and has made a beginning with the introduction of 10,000 book titles. View full article..
April 16th
The Media Publishers Association Singapore (MPAS) has confirmed Magzter as a sponsor of its awards event taking place in Singapore at the middle of the year. This partnership signals a growing importance of digital platforms as a means for media publishers to increase their reach and target a global audience. View full article..
April 14th
Mr.Girish Ramdas, CEO & Co-Founder - Magzter, presided over the meet and explained the Rotarians why going digital is the way of the future and how enhancing technology in business can help bring clients closer. View full article..
April 7th
Meet Girish Ramdas CEO of Magzter, the digital magazine newsstand and bookstore View full article..
April 11th
After Just One Month, Leading Digital Newsstand Signs On Dozens of New Publishers and Hundreds of New Titles, Including American Media Inc., Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur and The Atlantic, for Its 'Netflix-Style' Subscription Service View full article..
April 1st
Just as ebook distributors competed for readers by offering the best in content, pricing, devices, and compatibility, digital magazine providers are also upping the ante when it comes to vying for consumer loyalty. That’s why one of the relative newcomers in the digital magazine space, Magzter, has already signed more than 25 million customers since launching Magzter GOLD in January of this year. View full article..
April 1st
Magzter, the largest and fastest-growing digital magazine store and newsstand in the world, with more than 25 million users globally, today announced the addition of over 500 new titles to Magzter GOLD, the ‘all-you-can-read’ digital magazine subscription service that gives users unlimited access to the largest library of digital magazines across mobile, tablet and web for $9.99 a month. View full article..
March 31st
Digital magazine store and newsstand Magzter is adding more than 500 new titles to its "all-you-can-read" Gold subscription service. View full article..
March 30th
Mr. Girish Ramdas (Co-founder & CEO) and Mr. Vijay Radhakrishnan (Co-founder & President) being featured in the elite list of Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs of the Year. View full article..
March 22nd
The latest all-you-can-consume bundle for content comes from Magzter. The app to read magazines online announced Monday that subscribers who pay $9.99 a month can read more than 2,000 magazines, including old issues. The titles include ESPN The Magazine, Maxim, PC Gamer and Fast Company. View full article..
January 21st
Magzter Launches Magzter Gold - the "All You Can Read" subscription model. View full article..
January 19th
Digital magazine store Magzter has launched a new monthly subscription model. It is trying to replicate the successful monthly subscription model adopted by Netflix for movies and TV shows. The firm is opening access to a library of about 2000 magazines, for Rs. 499 a month under the Magzter Gold plan. In another plan Magzter Gold Lite the firm allows users to read 5 magazines of their choice at Rs. 249 a month. Both the plans are priced at $10 and $5 a month respectively for global markets. View full article..
January 31st
Magzter, the largest and fastest-growing digital magazine store and newsstand in the world, with more than 24 million users globally, today announced the launch of Magzter Gold, an "all-you-can-read" subscription model that gives users unlimited access to the largest library of digital magazines across mobile, tablet and web for $9.99 a month. At launch, Magzter Gold features over 2,000 titles, including Maxim, ESPN The Magazine, and Fast Company, as well as many top magazines from different geographies, including the UK, Singapore, and India, with many more planned for 2015. View full article..
January 19th
While some may say that the printed word may be dead in the era of the Internet, one company has decided to buck the trend: Magzter is offering an all-you-can-read magazine subscription service for less than $10. View full article..
January 19th
If you are big into magazines then you might already know of or be using Magzter. This is your online portal to everything magazine and to sum up, is a one-stop option to digital magazine subscriptions. Magzter offers users the ability to subscribe and download from a massive variety of mainstream and popular magazine titles such as Forbes, Maxim, Cosmopolitan and GQ. If you are one of those who likes to get your magazine fix digitally, then you seriously might want to check out Magzter. View full article..
January 19th
Headquartered in New York, Magzter has been in the business of selling digital publications since 2011. Thus far, however, they’ve done so using traditional models – selling single issues or annual subscriptions. An all-you-can-read option is entirely new for the company and they’re hoping their 24 million members will take the bait. View full article..
January 19th
Magzter Gold will get you access to 2,000 different magazines from 900 different providers. However, if the $10 monthly payment is too much, there's always Magzter Gold Lite, which gets users access to five titles of their choice along with the archives for each one. Gold Lite is $4.99 per month. View full article..
January 19th
The digital newsstand service Magzter today introduced Magzter Gold, the latest digital newsstand to begin offering a all-you-can-read magazine subscription service. Magzter’s offering will cost $9.99 per month for unlimited reading of over 2,000 titles (Magzter’s standard newsstand claims to offer over 5,000 titles). View full article..
January 19th
Magzter gives you access to 2000+ magazines for $9.99/month, including back issues. There are Magzter apps for iOS, Android, Amazon and Windows 8 (and you can read on the web as well) so most of us are covered. There's no commitment so if you don't like the service you can just drop it after the first month. View full article..
January 20th
Magzter has gone the way of Netflix with its new all-you-can-read magazine subscription service called Magzter Gold. Competing with other similar services including those of Next Issue and Readr, Magzter Gold gives customers unlimited access to Magzter’s library of digital magazines across mobile, tablet, and the Web for $9.99 a month. View full article..
January 19th
Magzter, a magazine subscription app, is looking to take advantage of this fact by releasing an all-you-can-read option for publications such as ESPN, Maxim and Fast Company. Magzter, established in 2011, has served as a comprehensive source for magazines, with 5,000 publications accessible through its service. However, consumers had to purchase issues or subscribe to magazines. View full article..
January 20th
We don't often talk about digital newsstands and magazine stores because there are too many out there. However, Magzter, one of the more popular ones today recently rolled out a new promo that offers unlimited access to subscribers willing to pay $9.99 every month. Magzter's All-You-Can-Read subscription deal brings the more than 24 million users access to the biggest collection of digital magazines available for all platforms from mobile to tablet and to the web. View full article..
January 20th
For a monthly fee you can now have unlimited access to over 2,000 magazines, including old issues, through Magzter Gold. There is a wide variety of categories ranging from automotive, business, cooking, weddings and everything in between, with titles including Maxim, Inc., Top Gear and Fast Company. View full article..
January 20th
When it comes to ebooks, Amazon is pretty much the king of the hill. But digital magazines are pretty much still fair game. In order to gain an advantage over its competitors, Magzter is offering a new Magzter Gold subscription scheme that will give users unlimited access to over 2,000 titles, including the hottest and latest magazine brands. And for those on a tighter budget, Magzter Gold Lite has the same unlimited access to but for a smaller pool of monthly titles to choose from. View full article..
January 20th
All-you-can-consume content is very popular these days, and for a few pounds a month you can get yourself unlimited access to films, tv, and even e-books. Magazines are no exception, but who has time to read entire back catalogues of hundreds and thousands of magazines? View full article..
January 20th
Most magazine subscriptions nowadays have gone premium. The client base has dropped and the publishers need to make do with what they’ve got. The average membership fee is from $20 to $60 per year and the costs cover only a small range of journals and publications, probably around 60 titles. View full article..
January 20th
Back when the iPad was just a rumor, there was much excitement within the newspaper and magazine industries at the idea that this new device might allow them to create a kind of “iTunes for news,” in which readers would pay a monthly fee for an all-you-can-read subscription to their content. Nothing like that happened, of course, but there are still those trying to make it work — except now they call it a “Spotify for magazines” or a “Netflix for newspapers.” View full article..
January 19th
The Netflix-for-magazines race got a little more interesting this week, as Magzter announced that it’s adding subscription options for its digital newsstand of more than 2,000 titles. The company’s plans—a $9.99/month unlimited access option and a $4.99/month 5-title plan—put Magzter’s sales strategy more in line with the other major competitors in the all-you-can-read magazine space, Next Issue Media and Zinio. Magzter had previously only offered single-title sales and a variety of individually-priced bundle options, while Zinio, and particularly Next Issue, relied on full- or partial-library access models. View full article..
January 20th
Internationale tijdschriftenkiosk Magzter begint met een Netflix voor tijdschriften. Met het nieuwe gold-abonnement kan de hele collectie van Magzter op een iPhone of iPad gelezen worden. Net als Spotify of Netflix kost het abonnement een tientje per maand. View full article..
January 20th
In a Monday announcement, the New York-headquartered cross-platform digital magazine Magzter launched its new gold-level subscription service - Magzter Gold. The service enables the users to gain unlimited access to more than 2,000 magazines for a monthly subscription of $9.99. View full article..
January 20th
While some might say the printed word is close to being dead in today’s Internet based world, one company is bucking that trend. Magzter is offering a magazine subscription of “all-you-can-read” for under $10 per month. View full article..
January 20th
Magzter, a digital magazine store and newsstand, with more than 24 million users, announced the launch of Magzter Gold, an "all-you-can-read" subscription model that gives users unlimited access to its library of digital magazines across mobile, tablet, and web for $9.99 a month. At launch, Magzter Gold features over 2,000 titles, including Maxim, ESPN The Magazine, and Fast Company, as well as many top magazines from different geographies, including the UK, Singapore, and India, with many more planned for 2015. View full article..
January 20th
Ever heard of Magzter? It's a digital magazine store and newsstand with a current customer base of about 24 million users. Today the company took a shot at other magazine providers like Zinio and Apple's own Newsstand by announcing the launch of Magzter Gold, which provides unlimited access to over 2,000 magazines for US$9.99 monthly. Also included in that fee is access to thousands of books and comic titles.
To make it easier to figure out what you're going to consume out of that smorgasbord of words, Magzter Gold also has a new user interface to make content discovery less of a hassle. The new interface can "algorithmically tailor the reading experience for individual users based on their interests and interactions with in-app content."View full article..
January 19th
The all-you-can-consume model of content distribution on the Internet made popular by Netflix and Spotify is set to infiltrate the magazine industry.
For $9.99 a month, readers can now access unlimited digital copies of ESPN the Magazine, Maxim, New York and 2,000 more magazine titles worldwide through a new online service called Magzter Gold.View full article..
January 19th
Magzter, the digital magazine store with apps for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows 8 and web reading, has announced a new subscription model that gives unlimited access to a library of 2,000 titles.
Publishers represented on the service include Hearst, Conde Nast, Newsweek and Maxim Inc in the US and Dennis Publishing and Haymarket in the UK. In all, Magzter features titles from more than 40 countries.View full article..
January 19th
Magzter Gold, which will be available in the new version of the Magzter app, will cost $9.99 per month. It will provide unlimited access to more than 2,000 magazines, including Maxim, ESPN, and Fast Company. There will also be an option called Magzter Gold Lite, where you choose only five titles — but you’ll have access to the full archive of each one, and it only costs $4.99 per month.
Co-founder and CEO Girish Ramdas said the company has “always been toying with the idea” of a Netflix-style subscription, but it was “not the right time” until recently, when Magzter convinced a number of its publishers to try the model out.View full article..
January 19th
Magzter has been around since 2011 serving as a single access point for more than 5,000 magazines, but you still had to buy issues or subscribe to titles individually. By offering this, Magzter managed to draw 4 million monthly active users. But adding on unlimited reading could help the app take off—at least, that’s the hope, said Girish Ramdas, Magzter’s CEO and co-founder.
Magzter is offering access to a library of about 2,000 titles, many of them top-tier publications, for $10 a month in a plan called Magzter Gold. For those who want to spend less and don’t feel the need to have access to every title, the company will also offer Magzter Gold Lite, which gives subscribers access to any five titles they want at a price of $5 a month. With Magzter Gold Lite, users can change what five titles they’re reading every month.View full article..
January 19th
Magzter has been around since 2011 serving as a single access point for more than 5,000 magazines, but you still had to buy issues or subscribe to titles individually. By offering this, Magzter managed to draw 4 million monthly active users. But adding on unlimited reading could help the app take off—at least, that’s the hope, said Girish Ramdas, Magzter’s CEO and co-founder.
Magzter is offering access to a library of about 2,000 titles, many of them top-tier publications, for $10 a month in a plan called Magzter Gold. For those who want to spend less and don’t feel the need to have access to every title, the company will also offer Magzter Gold Lite, which gives subscribers access to any five titles they want at a price of $5 a month. With Magzter Gold Lite, users can change what five titles they’re reading every month.View full article..
January 19th
Magzter, the largest and fastest-growing digital magazine store and newsstand in the world, with more than 23 million users globally, today announced the launch of MagEnhance. Magzter already lets publishers create digital editions of existing print content with just one-click. MagEnhance takes that a step further, allowing publishers to easily integrate rich text, videos, animation, links, slideshows, and more, to any digitized magazine content. It's a drag-and-drop platform that requires no coding, making it totally accessible to anyone in a publisher's organization. .View full article..
December 23rd
Magzter makes it really easy for publishers to translate their print magazines into digital versions. It has over 1,500 major publishers using its service to produce more than 4,000 magazines available via Apple’s Newsstand, the Kindle Store, and the Magzter digital magazine store. Previously, publishers found Magzter to be an attractive partner because it was very cost effective to push preexisting magazine issues to new untapped digital distribution channels. However, that also meant that there wouldn’t be very many bells and whistles.View full article..
December 23rd
In 2009, Ramdas and Radhakrishnan, who were based in Chennai at the time, decided to develop a software which will make it easy to access and read magazines on a tablet or smart phone—with just a tap. Two years later, Magzter, a digital store was born in Chennai offering 35 magazines.
Currently Magzter Inc. is one of the largest and fastest growing cross-platform digital stores with over 21 million readers, over 4,500 magazines and thousands of books and comic titles from over 1,500 publishers.View full article..
November 24th
Four of Tamil Nadu’s companies have been judged as potential ‘Billion Dollar’ concerns by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Chennai. Not one of these four potential ‘big billion’ firms though, are from the state’s manufacturing sector.
Seeking to showcase Tamil Nadu’s success stories and their potential to become truly big players in the global industry, TiE Chennai’s ‘Billion Dollar Baby’ program announced four winners on Monday - Cross platform, global digital magazine store Magzter, Financial services major Financial Software Systems, water processing giant VA Tech Wabag and technology services company Congruent Solutions. View full article..
October 14th
TiE Chennai has identified Magzter, FSS, VA Tech Wabag and Congruent Solutions as the potential billion-dollar firms. They would be showcased at the TiECON event on November 1.
From over 350 referrals and nominations, TiE shortlisted 18. It was further reduced to 12. From this the final four were selected by the jury comprising Anup Bagchi, CEO and MD of ICICI Securities, and Ashwin Narasimhan, MD at Bank of America.
Magzter, a self-service, cross-platform digital magazine store and newsstand, has over 22 million digital consumers, 4,500 plus magazines and thousands of books and comic titles from about 1,500 publishers.View full article..
October 13th
Entrepreneurs and investors will have an opportunity to gain insights into four companies in a diverse range of businesses short-listed by TiE Chennai, a part of the The Indus Entrepneurs, a global not-for-profit organisation that nurtures entrepreneurs. The four companies, the Billion Dollar Babies – VA Tech Wabag Ltd, Financial Software & Systems (P) Ltd, Congruent Solutions Pvt Ltd and Magzter Inc – will share their experiences at the TieCon Chennai 2014, a two-day seminar on entrepreneurship themed ‘I can do it’, starting on October 31 in Chennai.
Magzter Inc is among the world’s largest cross-platform online magazine stores and news stand with more than 22 million digital customers offering 4,500 magazines and thousands of titles from over 1,500 publishers.View full article..
October 13th
As part of encouraging companies which have grown several manifold, not for profit organisation TiECON (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Chennai has selected four companies that would become 'Billion Dollar Babies' in future.
Information technology solutions provider Congruent Solutions, digital magazine store Magzter, financial software service provider FSS (Financial Software Systems) and water treatment player VA Tech Wabag were shortlisted as potential Billion Dollar babies from Tamil Nadu. View full article..
October 13th
Time Inc.’s former CTO, Abe Cytryn, is joining Magzter in the same role as the digital newsstand company preps a series of new features for both publishers and consumers.
Cytryn, well-versed in the challenges of digital magazine production from his 15 years at Time Inc., says it’ll ease the burden on publishers while improve the product.
Cytryn and Magzter are also planning to overhaul their app to emphasize discovery for users, leveraging its 5,000 titles—a big competitive advantage in the digital newsstand marketplace. View full article..
October 9th
Digital magazine aggregator Magzter expects half of its revenue to come from advertisements placed inside its app by 2016.
The company currently generates 100 per cent of its revenue from subscriptions of magazines, by keeping 35 per cent of the end-user price. It will also introduce a news feed and books to its library of content.
Magzter has over 4,500 global magazines in its stores, and expects the number to touch over 8,000 by 2015.
The firm has developed an ad engine which would deliver advertisements to magazines and also help place ads at targeted content.
“Google did this for web and online content. We aim to do this for Magazines and books,” Girish Ramdas Co-Founder and CEO of Magzter, said.View full article..
September 24th
Girish Ramdas (pictured), CEO, Magzter, USA, talked about the boom in mobile devices (there will be 2,250,000,000 smart devices in use by 2017), and said that this growth has helped Magzter to grow from 6.5m users to 21m users in 18 months. “People with smart devices want to read, email and play games, we bring bring them engaging content and books too,” he said.View full article..
September 23rd
The company is setting up a large ad-sales team which will work on bringing innovative ads to the digital editions of the publications available on Magzter. It has brought on board Abe Cytryn, former the CTO of Time Inc., HBO as vice president of products, and is close to hiring a vice-president of ad-sales at New York and another for its office in India.
August 15th
Girish Ramdas is the Co-founder and CEO of Magzter, a New York based startup that has been making waves in the global digital publishing business. In just 2+ years, Magzter has crossed 18 million users from more than 200 countries with magazines and books from more than 1000 publishers worldwide. Girish has over 18+ years of experience in this industry. He has his offices in Bangalore and New York. We talked to him to get his insights on setting up operations in the US.View full article..
July 30th
Founded in June 2011 by Ramdas and Radhakrishnan, the company has over 18 million digital consumers, 3,500 magazines and 2,500 books. Magzter is hosted on Amazon’s cloud platform. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local teams in London, Paris, Barcelona, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Chennai and Singapore and will be soon expanding to other countries. It claims of having a publisher base with magazines from more than 40 countries.View full article..
July 2nd
Magzter is a digital newsstand for your smartphone. You can peruse your favorite magazines, purchase single issues and even preview the pages before buying a subscription.View full article..
May 6th
Sportskeeda brings another exciting series of interviews – CXOs in Sports, where we speak to eminent and prominent personalities, talking about their sporting interests and ideas for development of sports in general and of their sports work/interest in particular.
Girish Ramdas is the co-founder and CEO of Magzter, a global digital magazine store and newsstand. Based in New York, Magzter is one of the fastest growing digital stores in the world today.View full article..
April 4th
In the two and a half years since it was created, Magzter, an application which offers a collection of more than 3,500 magazines over tablets and smartphones, has hit 18 million downloads.It is already the world's largest digital magazine store, with 750,000 downloads every month.
In December last year, Magzter raised $10 million from Singapore Press Holdings and former investor Kalaari Capital, as series-B funding. The first round of an amount of $3 million was from Kalaari Capital.View full article..
March 23rd
Magzter, one of the fastest growing cross-platform digital newsstand is looking to add key members to its core team and that key member could be you! Kalaari capital and Singapore Press Holdings – backed Magzter, Started by Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, which aggregates digital magazine content for more than 3500 Magazines across 33 languages, has more than 18 million users across all platforms and is signing up almost two new users every second. Magzter's website now shows a blank photo under “Team” and says “It could be you”.
March 12th
Not all business people under 40 are entrepreneurs, nor are they all techies. Nor are they all dreaming of building the next Apple, or Amazon or Microsoft. Most of the ideas featured here are not blockbusters, many of the are versions of existing business, sometimes they combine different ideas to create a whole new one. What stands out is how these entrepreneurs list, barring a handful, have started their own venture have gone all about building the world's biggest or richest company.
March
Management experts will tell you that the first and foremost task of any business leader is to take decisions. Small decisions, big decisions, urgent decisions, panic decisions, painful decisions,logical decisions – all make up the game that entreprenuers have to play in order to not fail their companies and their people.
For Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, founders at Magzter, one of the world's largest digital magazine aggregators, the decision to move to Newyork, the symbolic birthplace of Magazine publishing , started from being a logical one to being a no-brainer.
February
The growing use of smartphones and tablets to access the internet has made it necessary for magazines to reach out to and engage this user base with digital editions.
Commenting on how interactive features make all the difference, Girish Ramdas, CEO and Co-founder, Magzter said, “Interactive features can change the experience of the readers of digital editions of magazines. Talking covers is one of the most interesting features; another captivating feature is photos with a panoramic view, which can be a great asset for travel-related websites.”View full article..
February 27th
Magzter, a digital magazine store that enables readers to access content across tablets and mobile phones, is planning to expand to the BRIC nations, particularly Brazil, Russia and China while shoring up its presence in India.
Expansion would be on the back of the Series B funding of $10 million (Rs 62 crore at current exchange rate) that the New York-headquartered company raised from an unit of Singapore Press Holdings and its existing investor, Kalaari Capital. The funds were raised in December last year.View full article..
January 22nd
After online shopping, online market places and online meetings, now there is an online newsstand. Online content consumption and reading is increasing among internet users across the world. Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, 35 and Girish Ramdas, 37 both computer engineers from Chennai co-founded Magzter Inc an online newsstand in June 2011 in New York.
January 6th – 19th
The future of publication industry is digital. While there are multiple players around the globe who have jumped upon this business opportunity, there has been no player solving real time problems of small and large publishers with good and cost effective solutions. This led to the formation of Magzter, a cross-platform, global digital magazine store and newsstand in 2010. View full article..
January 14th
Magzter Inc., which has created the fastest growing cross-platform, global digital magazine store and newsstand, has raised a $10 million round of Series B funding. This new round of funding is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital (Kalaari). The funding will primarily be utilised for further expansion and entry in to digital books. View full article..
December 16th
Media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has invested in Magzter - a global digital magazine store and newsstand.
SPH announced on Wednesday that its wholly owned subsidiary was the lead investor in a US$10 million (S$12.5 million) round of funding in the New York-based company. The other co-investor is Kalaari Capital, a venture capital fund investing in global technology-oriented companies. View full article..
December 14th
Magzter Inc., a New York-based online magazine store which has roots in Chennai, on Tuesday, said it had picked up $10 million in its second round of funding.
This new round, which is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital, takes the total amount of funding raised to roughly $13 million. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to pursue a global growth strategy built around local editions. This new round, which is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital, takes the total amount of funding raised to roughly $13 million. The funding will primarily be utilised for further expansion and entry into digital books. Magzter wants to have one million digital books available on its platform by next year. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in series B funding that would be used for further expansion and entry into digital books and newer geographies.
Magzter currently serves over 16 million online consumers and also aims to have one million digital books on its platform by early 2014, a company statement said. Magzter Inc was founded by city-based entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan. The store has offices in London, Chennai and Singapore. View full article..
December 12th
Magzter, a digital magazine store and newsstand, has announced that it has raised $10 million in a round of series B funding. This funding was led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings and its existing investor Kalaari Capital. The funding will be utilised for expansion and entry in to digital books. Magzter co-founded by Girish Ramdas. View full article..
December 12th
Magzter Inc., a New York - based online magazine store which has roots in Chennai, on Tuesday, said it had picked up $10 million in its second round of funding.
This new round, which is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital, takes the total amount of funding raised to roughly $13 million. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Capital.
Magzter seeks to utilise the capital raised for expanding into newer geographies and venturing into digital books.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, with its Indian office in Chennai was co-founded by the company’s Chief Executive Officer Girish Ramdas and President Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan. The company aims at having a million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to pursue a global growth strategy built around local editions.
This new round, which is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital, takes the total amount of funding raised to roughly $13 million.The funding will primarily be utilised for further expansion and entry into digital books. Magzter wants to have one million digital books available on its platform by next year. View full article..
December 12th
Magzter, the digital magazine store has raised $10 million in series B funding which will be used for the global expansion of the company, the strategy that is built around local editions and to start new verticals, reports The Times of India.
The digital magazine store and newsstand provides its service to over 16 million users and is planning to expand their digital books collection to one million by early 2014 says a company statement. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to pursue a global growth strategy built around local editions.This new round, which is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital, takes the total amount of funding raised to roughly $13 million.The funding will primarily be utilised for further expansion and entry into digital books. View full article..
December 12th
Indian enterprise-fuelled and New York headquartered Magzter, the largest and fastest growing cross-platform, global digital magazine store and newsstand, has attracted a $ 10 million investment from Kalaari Capital, a subsidiary of Asian media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), best known as the publishers of the Straits Times newspaper. The funding will primarily be utilized for further expansion and entry in to digital books. Magzter aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 12th
Digital magazine store and newsstand Magzter has raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding led by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), which publishes The Straits Times. SPH has made the investment through a subsidiary which it did not name. Earlier investor Kalaari Capital, the Bangalore-based early stage investor, are participated in the round. View full article..
December 12th
Media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary is the lead-investor in a Series B US$10 million round of funding in Magzter Inc (Magzter), a global digital magazine store and news stand.
An official statement did not name the subsidiary. The other co-investor of the magazine is Kalaari Capital (Kalaari), a venture capital fund investing in global technology-oriented companies. View full article..
December 11th
New York-based Magzter, a startup founded in 2011 to help magazine publishers get their pubs in the hands of digital readers, regardless of which platform they choose to use to read. In two years of operation, the company has managed to rack up over 900 publisher partners and put out over 2,850 issues of magazines, the company says, all powered by its proprietary web-based simple publishing tool, which pushes out editions to iOS, Google Play, Windows 8, the web and both Amazon and Huawei’s dedicated app stores all at once. View full article..
December 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Capital.The funds would be largely utilized by the company for expanding into the arena of digital books, as per a press statement.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, co-founded in 2011 by the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Girish Ramdas and President, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan- aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
New York-based digital magazine store Magzter Inc. on Wednesday said it raised $10 million. The new round of funding is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital.
The funding will primarily be utilized for further expansion and entry into digital books. Magzter aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Capital. The funds would be utilised by the company for expanding into newer geographies and venturing into digital books, according to a press statement.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, co-founded by the company’s Chief Executive Officer Girish Ramdas and President Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, aims at having a million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Capital. The funds would be utilised by the company for expanding into newer geographies and venturing into digital books, according to a press statement.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, co-founded by the company’s Chief Executive Officer Girish Ramdas and President Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, aims at having a million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
New York based Magzter Inc., which has created the largest and fastest growing cross-platform, global digital magazine store and newsstand, today announced that it has raised a US$10M round of Series B funding. This new round of funding is led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital (Kalaari). The funding will primarily be utilized for further expansion and entry in to digital books. Magzter aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
New York-based digital magazine store Magzter Inc. has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH). Existing investor Kalaari Capital also participated in the round. The capital raised will be used for the company’s global expansion, technological advancement, as well as for adding more tools for publishers. View full article..
December 11th
New York-based digital magazine store Magzter Inc. has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH). Existing investor Kalaari Capital also participated in the round. The capital raised will be used for the company’s global expansion, technological advancement, as well as for adding more tools for publishers. View full article..
December 11th
Started two years ago, Magzter has more than 16 million users from more than 200 countries, and offers a global catalogue of more than 3,000 magazines from over 900 publishers in more than 30 international languages. View full article..
December 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $ 10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Hub.
The funds would be fundamentally utilized by the company for expanding into the arena of digital books, as per a press statement.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, co-founded in 2011 by the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Girish Ramdas and President, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan- aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a unit of Singapore Press Holdings and existing investor Kalaari Capital.
The funds would be largely utilized by the company for expanding into the arena of digital books, as per a press statement.
The New York-headquartered Magzter, co-founded in 2011 by the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Girish Ramdas and President, Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan- aims to have one million digital books available on its platform by early 2014. View full article..
December 11th
Magzter, digital magazine store and news-stand, announced that it had raised $10 million in a Series B funding, led by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and its existing investor Kalaari Capital.
This will be used for expansion and for entry into digital books. It wants to have one million digital books available on its platform next year. View full article..
December 11th
The article has mentioned Mr. Girish Ramdas and Mr. Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan as winners of the Most Innovative Entrepreneur award.
November 12th
Get over those conventional programming or testing jobs. At a time when mobile apps dominate the technology landscape, companies are looking for app developers by the dozen. The market for app developers is wholly ripe, say job experts. They peg the number of such jobs across India as over 1 lakh.
"The job opportunity is tremendous. We ourselves are looking for talent that can develop apps for Android, Apple and Windows 8 platforms," says Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, co-founder of digital magazine store Magzter. View full article..
October 3rd
Apps that compile your favourite content and allow you to create your own magazines too. View full article..
September 11th
Vani Kola is a citizen of the flat world.
Kola, an Indian immigrant who I first met nearly 15 years ago, was making a name for herself then with a business-to-business software startup she launched from the Sunnyvale library. She cashed out her stake in that company, RightWorks, in 2000 when the company was valued at $1.25 billion and has since moved back to India. View full article..
July 26th
India is rapidly becoming a leading market for tablets because of the fast-growing adoption of technology and 'on the go' attitude among the masses.
According to a recent report by Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT), the sale of tablets and smartphones in India rose up to 1.90 million in the fiscal year 12-13. With the world going digital, a drastic change is being witnessed in the consumer behavior. People are slowly shifting focus from computers to tablets due to various factors like mobility, convenience, affordability, weight, etc. View full article..
July 30th
Magzter is on a high yet again. Fresh off their second anniversary with more than 10 million subscribers and an array of 2000+ magazines, now, Magzter has more reason to rejoice. It has become one of the first magazine distribution apps to be available across 200 countries on Kindle Fire. Armed with an unshakeable eye on the future, Magzter constantly seeks to broaden its global presence across multiple platforms. The motivation to be at the forefront of digital publishing, has earned Magzter a top spot in the minds of users and publishers. View full article..
July 25th
How did Magzter come about?
Mr. Girish Ramdas, CEO and Co-founder of Magzter and I, have had a wide range of experience from running an IT services company to managing a media company which also had a print magazine. In 2009, when the tablet and smartphone industry was booming complimented by mobile app eco-system, we saw an opportunity to bring our print magazine to the digital world especially on tablets and smartphones. So we launched a mobile app for our print magazine "Galatta Cinema" and soon realised the opportunity to share Indian content with the world and to make content sales borderless. View full article..
July 22nd
Srendipity”, claims Vijay Radhakrishnan, when asked about how Magzter, the company he co-founded with Girish Ramdas and is CTO of, came about . A self-confessed tech geek, Radhakrishnan was attending an Apple roadshow in Bangalore in 2008 to showcase its new mobile handset, the iPhone. Apple executives spoke of how they planned to develop an app ecosystem built on the iOS platform. At the time,recalls Radhakrishnan, there were only 100 or so apps and the executives told him how all the developers were alreadt millionaries. “ That definetely caught my attention,” he says with a smile.
July 20th
Digital magazines and media publications in Asia are capturing the overseas Filipino or OFW market, said publishing officials at the Asia Publishing Convention (APC).
According to Vijay Radhakrishnan, co-founder and president of digital magazine store and newsstand Magzter Inc., 70% of readership of digital magazines in Asia comes from abroad. View full article..
July 15th
Magzter, an online store front for digital magazines, is to launch an e-book store with a planned beta version rolling out in July. The business has hired three new executives ahead of the push, including Marzia Ghiselli, former business development director at The Bookseller. View full article..
June 18th
Magzter Inc, the digital magazine store and newsstand which originated from Chennai, has announced new expansion plans including a broader range of magazine offers and online books for its readers.
"We will start offering online books from next month, and further expand the range of magazine offers," the co-founder and chief executive officer of Magzter Inc Girish Ramdas said. View full article..
June 14th
The number one magazine provider in Apple's Newstand just passed 10 million readers, moved to a New York office, and - a month after adding Hearst Magazines to its roster - has now added 20 new magazine from American Media to its stable of 1,800 magazines for digital sale. View full article..
May 31st
The Asian Publishing Convention (APC) 2013, a two-day event for publishing professionals, is pleased to announce the GOLD and EXCELLENCE award winners for the Asian Publishing Awards 2013. A panel of international judges selected the winners in 18 categories. A total of 31 media companies from 8 countries submitted 171 entries.
May 31st
The article titled 'Obstacle Course' highlights the various regulatory, infrastructure and corruption issues faced by Indian startups which makes starting and closing a venture very difficult in India.
May 31st
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.
April 22nd
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. View full article..
April 10th
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. View full article..
April 9th
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.
April 3rd
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. View full article..
April 3rd
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. View full article..
April 2nd
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. View full article..
April 1st
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. View full article..
March 27th
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. View full article..
March 17th
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. View full article..
March 16th
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. View full article..
March 5th
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. View full article..
March 4th
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. View full article..
February 28th
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. View full article..
February 27th
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. View full article..
February 26th
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.
February 15th
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. View full article..
February 11th
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.
February
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.
February 5th
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. View full article..
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.
January 21st
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. View full article..
January 7th
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.
January
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. View full article..
January 2nd
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. View full article..
December 31st
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. View full article..
December 31st
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. View full article..
December 28th
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.
December 24th
Here are 10 candidates for the CIOL Person of the Year award. Who do you think dominated the technology sphere the most in this year and set the tone for powerful future?. View full article..
December 7th
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. View full article..
December 7th
A week ago, an Indian magazine store app topped the Apple App Store charts in Asia for raking in the most money.
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.
December
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. View full article..
November 28th
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. View full article..
November 28th
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. View full article..
November 27th
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. View full article..
November 27th
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. View full article..
November 27th
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. View full article..
November 26th
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.
November 15th
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.
October – December
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. View full article..
November 19th
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. View full article..
November 16th
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. View full article..
November 14th
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.
November 14th
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. View full article..
November 5th
Your go-to guide of what to download and why.
November
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... View full article..
October 30th
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. View full article..
August 31th
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. View full article..
August 21st
"There were others who had forced their way to the top from the lowest rung by the aid of their boot straps". When Irish author James Joyce penned this in his novel Ulysses (1922), did he know that boot strapping, which means rising on one's own efforts and resources, would be more commonly used to describe the adventurous journey of a tribe of enteprenuers.
August
"Content is king" is an easy saying – but how does it pan out as the Internet expands and technology progresses further? The jury is still out because advertising models have not yet matured for e-content, but I am fascinated by new prospects opening up based on simply pay models- and also the increased scope for content innovation that the Web offers.
July 16th
The content of the show focuses on the special and user friendly features of Magzter such as,
Magzter is the world's fastest growing digital magazine store and newsstand. For price-sensitive customers who consider instant gratification their birthright. Magzter revolutionizes the experience of reading magazines at one-third cost of subscription to the physical verison.Launched on June16,2011 Magzter has signed up globally with over 350 magazines,which range from general interest magazines like India Today & Filmfare to business segment specific magazines like Asian Photography, Auto Car, Retailer, Ideal Home, etc.
July
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Mr. Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, Co-founder and President of Magzter.
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.
July 11th
The stupendous growth in online shopping is reflected in Magzter, which was launched in June 2011, and has already clocked more than 10 lakh users on it i pad app and website. It achieved 100% growth every two months. It gets 60% of its users from kolkata and other metro cities, and expects to have at least 50 lakh users in the next 18 months from India alone.
July 2nd
Magzter, a digital magazine store and newsstand application for smart devices, was founded by BITS Pilani graduate Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan. Radhakrishnan had noticed that readers of, say 10 magazines, could not download 10 applications due to capacity constraint on their tablets. They needed a common app -- an idea he took up seriously. View full article..
June 29th
Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan, Co-founder & President, Magzter has more than 14 years of experience in enterprise software solution, mobile applications, Digital marketing, including setting up his own company in 2000 which he sold in 2005. View full article..
June 27thThe content of the show focuses on the special and user friendly features of Magzter such as,
Sitting in a packed compartment of a Mumbai local train, Madhu Nainan turns the pages of her favourite book Chronicles of Narnia, Its a bizarre sight, which one might not consider too realistic. But it is. Nainan, 21 is one of such young e-readers of the country.....
June 10th
Magzter, the fastest growing digital magazine store could become the iTunes of the magazine business if entrepreneurs Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan have their way. Recently, Magzter Inc. has successfully raised Series A funding from Indo-US Venture Partners (www.iuvp.com) , a leading VC firm,focused on early-stage technology-enabled businesses. View full article..
May 11th
Digital magazine store Magzter has raised an undisclosed amount in a Series A funding round from Indo-US Venture Partners, reports VCCircle. While the exact funding amount wasn’t disclosed, the report pegs the number in the range of $3-5 million. Further the company is also apparently looking for another funding round in the range of $10-15 million, over the next year. View full article..
May 10th
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. View full article..
May 10th
While the U.S. tablet market still enjoys the bulk of device sales, Apple and other manufacturers are seeing surprising growth around the world. Publishers have the opportunity to leverage the international reach of tablets in new ways. One of the up and coming platforms in the space, Magzter, says it is seeing distribution and promotional success in a wide range of new places. "We had 25 titles four months ago and now we have 400," says CEO Girish Ramdas. started last year with a core of Indian titles in its digital edition newsstand. "We should have 2,000 by the end of the year," he says. It already handles a number of Hearst's international extensions of core U.S. brands. View full article..
May 10th
New York-based digital magazine store Magzter Inc. has secured series A funding from IndoUS Venture Partners. Although the exact amount has not been disclosed, it is an estimated $3-5 million, according to co-founder and president Vijayakumar. View full article 1.. View full article 2..
May 9th
Magzter, the global digital mobile magazine store is now on a major mission to transform itself into a digital mega store of the world that can offer readers some 10,000 to 20,000 magazine editions and periodicals from round the globe. View full article..
May 7th
Magzter - the revolutionary new digital magazine platform and global digital newsstand that has been making waves among global magazine readers and publishers alike has enhanced the latest avatar of its Apple iOS app to be compatible with the Retina screen of the new iPad or the iPad3 as most people call it! View full article..
May 6th
The India-based digital newsstand company Magzter released a branded app for Columbia Journalism Review today into Apple's Newsstand. The app, like the Kindle and NOOK apps, serves only as a reader app, users must sign into the app to gain access to the magazines that have been purchased through the Magzter store. View full article..
May 3rd
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....
March 16th
We've come a long long way from using metal alloys and hand moulds to typeset pages and print books. Editors no longer sit down with a physical manuscript before a book or an article is vetted for Publishing. Publications no longer require a huge workforce to man heavy machinery to print ….
March 16th
Magzter, the fastest growing device-agnostic magazine store and newsstand is quickly becoming a 'must-have' magazine aggregator app across all devices and has just launched its much-awaited Version 2.0 'avatar'. View full article 1..
March 10th
Tablets have a long way to go before they become the most popular choice for print media delivery. But some of the recent apps that have been developed by media houses or third party news-stand developers have caught the fancy of tablet users....
January 2nd
The demise of the print media has been written about many times over in the past. While TV news is whole different ball game, the challenges posed by the explosion of real time news on the Web have, surprisingly, been embraced.....
December 19th
Edipresse Asia has launched its masthead publications including:
… on Magzter, the global digital newsstand. Edipresse readers can now browse, preview and purchase either single issues or subscriptions via Magzter. These digital issues are immediately available to the readers on Apple and Android devices globally. View full article..
December 6th
Black Enterprise, the premier business, wealth building and investing resource for African Americans since 1970, is now live on the digital frontier through Magzter, the global digital newsstand. Patrons of Black Enterprise magazine can now browse, preview and purchase single issues or subscriptions of their favorite link to African Americans who are serious about success. View full article..
December 5th
"You get what you pay for" is an age old adage that implies that anything that is good is required to be expensive. Magzter Inc., the New York based global digital newsstand, is looking to turn that expression on its head. View full article..
November 17th
Magzter also lets you subscribe to magazines, buy old issues, download and read magazines in off line mode so that you can read on the move where there is no internet. View full article..
November 14th
Back in June of this year Magzter launched its own digital newsstand in the vein of San Francisco-based Zinio. The NYC and India based company concentrates on the Indian publishing industry and in June released an iPad app, Magzter-Magazine store, which served as a newsstand for buying and reading the magazines Magzter represented. View full article..
November 3rd
A mobile digital magazine newsstand goes the open source way to cut its initial investments, and allow publishers to share digital editions of their periodicals with a widely-dispersed global readership. View full article..
November 1st
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. View full article..
October 20th
The World has lost one of its greatest visionaries! Steve Jobs (1955-2011), we pray for his soul to rest in peace. Magzter mourns his passing but celebrates his life and will work to continue to excel in what he started and this press release is a way for Magzter to show that his vision is alive and kicking and growing from strength to strength every day. We dedicate our success to Steve Jobs! View full article..
October 6th
New York based Magzter Inc., owned by group of young Indian entrepreneurs with more than 15 years of global technology and publishing background has today announced that its Digital and Mobile Magazine Store Magzter had exceed all their expectations and well on their way to become the #1 Digital and Mobile Newsstand in the world carving a pie of the $150 billion global magazine market for itself and sharing revenues back to publishers who are on board the store. View full article..
September 21st
Proving that the only barrier to entry to the digital newsstand business is stocking the store, Magzter has launched its own newsstand with the release of its first iPad app. View full article..
June 16th
