• Folio, Friday, November 21, 2008 9:45 AM

Zinio, a vendor of digital magazines, is launching a service that enables publishers and users to search for content within digital magazine products. It then allows people to send the layout of the magazine page to others via email.

The service -- which is free to users and publishers that have an account with Zinio -- also lets users post replicas of magazine pages on Web sites, blogs and social networking sites like Facebook.

While the search and the individual pages are free, the service makes money by selling single issues and one-year subscriptions of the digital magazines. (Such magazines are digital copies of the print product, as opposed to magazine Web sites.) The new Zinio Inside service debuts with more than 1,000 magazine titles in the company's digital library.

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