Answers on MegaZine3 related questions
What license to use or buy?
If you are a private user and need your own logo
See our answer on the question Can I continue to use my own logo? first. This gives some guidance on the best solution for private users.
If you are a private user and want to use the latest versions
Free license
The MZ3-FREE is without any cost for everybody. But it is limited to 50 pages (beyond that limit a watermark will be added) and now changes to logo or preloader are allowed.
In case you need more than 50 pages without watermark, you simply can build several books with up to 50 pages each. The number of MZ3-FREE licenses you can use is not limited!
Full license
You now also can purchase a license as private user (the old licenses only were available for business/commercial customers). We lowered the entry level and offer a single license MZ3-STD now for 23,80 Euro (VAT included), which allows own logo and preloader and up to 100 pages.
If you are a commercial user
Until end of July 2011 you have the full choice of licenses:
- old license model: still available until July 31, 2011 in our "old" shop at VservU
- new licenses in our new shop at megazine3
If you are a school/university
You can apply for a MZ3-EDU, which now has no more any limitations in the number of titles or pages. But our logo must stay.
If you are a public or government organization
You can apply for a special 50% discount.
If you are a reseller
You can resell standard licenses without any special contract. Reselling standard licenses is covered by the license agreement.
The more you sell, the better conditions you'll get; a result of the "discount magic" ;-)
If you have repetitive business and sell more than 100 licenses per year, you can apply to become a Power Reseller, with an additional 25% discount on top of all discounts.
License Comparison
A detailed spreadsheet with some calculated scenarios for the v2.1 license model is available here
To help you in makng the best choice see the short comparison below.
| Old License | New license |
| private | FREE |
| FIX | BOOK |
| FLEX | mix of MINI and STD |
| TIME | PER |
| HOST | BOOK or STD with discount |
| PUBL | BOOK or STD with discount |
| FREE | EDU |
Last update on 20.06.2011 by Hans Nuecke.


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Comment by leekwaiwan | 22.06.2011
I would like to know about the methodology of counting "Number of Titles". Is it correct that we can buy MZ3-STD to produce only one book with unlimited pages for only one issue or buy MZ3-MINI to produce 20 different books with limited to 30 pages for each books?!
I should be grateful if you would advise which MZ3 suit us best if we intend to produce a non-profitable e-magazine by monthly basis with 28 pages per issue. Can I buy the MZ3-MINI to produce 20 issues?!
Our Answer (2011-06-22):
You are right: in your case the MZ3-MINI is the best choice: 20 individual "books"/issues per license
If your magazine grows and you exceed the 30 pages, the next best fit is the MZ3-PER-M; which allows 12 issues without page limit within one year; for the same price as a MZ3-MINI.
And if you have more than 12 issues per year, you either buy a next MZ3-PER-M after 12 issues or consider a MZ3-PER-W for up to 53 issues per year. Again without page limit at a price of 75 Euro (w\o tax)
Comment by Sean Nolan | 13.09.2011
Could you please advise which MZ3 to purchase to use inside a comercial flash based game. There will be one book in the game (used for user login and note saving) but rolling out to many users via download? Thank you.
Nice idea!
I treat that as one book. There is no perfect fit license for such use case, and also a new license type we consider to offer,where the number of books and pages is irrelevant and only the content is a measure for the size of the license, is not really working.
To give it a test and gain experience I suggest you go for one Mz3-BOOK license, and i'll adjust the license agreement to cover your use case (one game - one book - individual content for login and notes - unlimited number of users - download allowed)
Did I understand correctly? Otherwise please let me know; best would be by eamil or the contct us form.
Regards