Rolling Stone co-founder will no doubt jump with joy on the news that Zinio just released a magazine reader app for Android Froyo/Gingerbread smartphones and Honeycomb tablets. The software exposes Android community to some 20,000 digital magazine titles, including National Geographic, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, O, The Oprah Magazine and more. Oh yes, Rolling Stone, too. Sweetening the deal, Zinio is offering most recent issues of two dozen popular magazines free of charge until June 15. And check out this nice perk…

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Next Issue Media, a joint venture of five major magazine publishers, is launching a long-awaited digital newsstand on Android tomorrow, May 19, 2011. Seven digital magazines packaged as downloadable Android apps will be available from day one: Esquire and Popular Mechanics from Hearst, Fitness and Parents from Meredith, The New Yorker from Condé Nast and Fortune and Time from Time Inc. Labeled an “early preview” release, the store will launch on Samsung Galaxy tablets on the Verizon network before rolling out to other Android devices later.

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