Free eBooks and Comics at Wowio
I’ve been usng Wowio.com for a while now as they had a nice service which provided free PDF downloads of ebooks and comics with embedded advertising and user information so you didn’t go spreading them around. It worked well and they have a decent selection of books and comics with quite a few very good titles from famous authors. The only downside was the site was for US residents only so using it from any other country was not really an option.
However a while back I logged in to find a message stating the site was closed and would reopen as a worldwide site so anyone could read the books from any country. Sounds good but I’ve now checked it out and they have changed the way books can be read.
The free PDFs are history and you can now read all the titles online for free using their own reader. This whilst not as good as the PDF downloads is at least a good compromise for those countries that couldn’t previously access any of the books. However you can get the PDF files but you now have to pay rather high prices and not all books are available in all countries.
I’m not sure how successful this will be. I’ll continue to use it for reading free books online and it’s a good resource, it’s just a shame they couldn’t keep the advertising supported free PDF downloads.
