Zinio, LLC announced the launch of Z-Pass, giving consumers three of their favorite magazines all in one place for just $5 per month. The first month is free and there are no commitments to term, or magazine choice. Nearly 25% of Zinio customers read three or more titles across multiple devices making Z-Pass an even simpler way for readers to manage and access their favorite magazines. The monthly cost of a Z-Pass is the lowest available in the market for a multiple-magazine subscription model. Z-Pass takes advantage of Zinio's "one digital library" where readers have all of their magazines in one place accessible from any digital device including -- Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows 8 smartphones, tablets, laptops and home computers. Creating a Z-Pass is simple and flexible. Customers choose three magazines from over 300 of the most popular titles among Zinio's 5,500+ digital library, including Car and Driver, Surfer, Maxim, Cosmopolitan and Food Network Magazine for $5 per month. Additional magazines can be added to a Z-Pass for just $1.50 per title. Premium titles, including Star and The Economist can be added for an additional fee. Z-Pass customers can change their magazine line-up on demand, swapping their Z-Pass titles up to 3 times per month.

Zinio, LLC announced a strategic partnership with Nokia to launch the digital newsstand exclusively to Nokia Lumia smartphone customers. The Zinio Windows Phone 8 app debuts a new look and feel that has been optimized specifically for the smartphone experience, supporting and promoting the unique and intuitive features inherent in the Windows Phone 8 platform and on Lumia devices. The partnership will also deliver special magazine promotions to Nokia Lumia customers providing them with the next generation digital magazine reading experience.

ShopAdvisor has partnered with Zinio to bring shopping inside the pages of digital editions of magazines. Additionally, ShopAdvisor's partnership with Zinio opens up innovative revenue opportunities for digital magazine publishers. Through a unique production process, ShopAdvisor's technology evaluates the pages and potential products found within activated publications and immediately activates the 'Watch' and 'Shop' features. Products are immediately available through the ShopAdvisor platform inside the digital issue on Zinio. No other apps, plug ins or browsers pages are required. Once the magazine is downloaded, products identified as new, are automatically updated in ShopAdvisor's pop-up store and made available for the reader to buy. By connecting the reader's initial interest in a product all the way through to their eventual purchase, ShopAdvisor will provide Zinio with detailed insight into the shopping behaviors and patterns of consumers.