Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
Tags: books, ebooks, freebies | Added: 27 Mar, 2008 (2,962 Views)If you’re comfortable with reading books on a monitor or mobile phone, this site might be for you. Wowio lets you legally download copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. These include works of classic literature, varirty of college textbooks, comic books, fiction books and more. Books can be downloaded in PDF format and will be associated with your Wowio username. Although they don’t have a decent selection yet, it’s growing. Please note, currently Wowio only available to users within US.
How does it work?
- 1. Find the book/s you want and add it to download queue.
- 2. When you are ready to get your books, go to the ‘Queue’ section.
- 3. Click on the “Gee Ebooks” and download button will appear next to each book.
Features
- Search, find and download copyrighted ebooks.
- Browse books by popularity or genre (architecture, art, classics, computers, college textbooks, fiction etc.)
- Limitation: You are allowed to download at most three books/day and not to exceed 30/month.
- Due to licensing restrictions service available only in United States.
[Video] Wowio demo
Check out Wowio @ www.wowio.com
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