OK, here's the report on my own Zinio "e" format magazines experience to this point. Without placing an order for anything or giving a credit card number I was able to click on over to the Zinio.com website and within about five minutes I had ordered free e-copies of three magazines of interest to me. I chose Stamp, Step and Dynamic Graphics. And all three were delivered almost immediately. None are the current issues on the news-stand but all are up to date in any case and I'm pretty happy about finding out about this whole thing. And I'm also very pleased that I could download them immediately without having them jam up my mail box. They (the folks at zinio) have a neat "delivery system" and reader software and it was easy to obtain the sample issues and then open and read them. I really got the impression of actually leafing through the pages. And this is a good thing since these particular publications are graphics rich. I'd give Zinio an A plus on my experience and the quality of the product so far. But I'm going to now order something I have to actually pay for and see if there's a perceptible difference between that and the freebies. Stay tuned!