Wowio.com — ‘Free Ebooks. Free Minds.’
June 24, 2008 – 7:58 am
Wowio.com offers up free Ebooks in the PDF form. I heard about this site from the I Read Comics podcast. And rightly so because Wowio serves a good number of comics and graphic novels from scores of publishers. The absence of DC and Marvel proves not much of a surprise. But many indie publishers have signed up.
The sign up process could potentially hold you back. With three ways to sign up, I chose to enter my email. Wait, what? What’s so hard about entering in a email? Well, Wowio won’t take free email address like hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc. But this is most likely the way to go if you have one. Otherwise you have to enter a credit card — albeit for authentication purposes only — or send them a scan of an ID!
After signing up the download process is simple and painless. I was quickly reading the current most popular comic on the site: Singularity 7.
Singularity 7, as described on the publisher’s site:
With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the “Gosiodo” -machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It’s up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back… before there’s nothing left to fight for.
THIS JUST IN: Wowio, apparently overnight, shut down the site and announced they are “going global”, retooling the site and will be back mid-July. The site now looks like this:
