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.





is eager to trade some vital user statistics in return, which can be hard for the publishers to ignore. What Magzter is willing to divulge is not only how many users are actually reading which magazines, but also the email addresses of those who are reading. Magzter has also stated there are no hidden costs involved at any stage, even if the publishers add more pages or interactive multimedia content to their magazines.

Magzter also boasts of a new automatic magazine uploading system where publishers will just have to upload their magazine only once and the software will render the magazine into the formats of various devices in vogue. Publishers will only have to upload the PDF file (or any other suitable format) into the system and it will be with the subscribers within the next one hour

Magzter has also shown interest in having a presence in the ebook scene as well and has already worked with a few publishers to come up with what it calls “mag books.” These are longer versions of some special edition issues of the magazines. Also, Magzter is up against the likes of such established competitors like Apple, Google, or Zinio, though the obvious advantage with Magzter is that it has a pan world presence. Also, Magzter is device independent, which means magazines sourced from it can be read on any device,

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