Comments on: Wowio to be sold? Freebie e-book company in talks with Platinum Studios http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/wowio-to-be-sold-freebie-e-book-company-in-talks-with-platinum-studios/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/wowio-to-be-sold-freebie-e-book-company-in-talks-with-platinum-studios/comment-page-1/#comment-840684 Elle Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:14:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/02/wowio-to-be-sold-freebie-e-book-company-in-talks-with-platinum-studios/#comment-840684 I'm just wishing I had downloaded a boatload more books than I ever did. The quality is not uniformly excellent, but I found several enjoyable reads. Both fiction and some nonfiction. Of the latter, a particularly good guide to botanical illustrations on the net. IMHO the least helpful nonfiction that I read were the drawing books. Just not to my taste at all, and limited to only a couple of authors. Several of my favorite WOWIO fictions came from Breakneck, which, I understand, is now variancepublishing.com. I'm not sure whether the change was a straight buyout or what. In any case, there are some pretty good thrillers on their list of titles. From what I saw, WOWIO had relatively few advertisers. And I read on a comics blog that 2 of their principal sponsors are in some financial trouble just now. It will be interesting to see what the old WOWIO becomes. I’m just wishing I had downloaded a boatload more books than I ever did. The quality is not uniformly excellent, but I found several enjoyable reads. Both fiction and some nonfiction. Of the latter, a particularly good guide to botanical illustrations on the net. IMHO the least helpful nonfiction that I read were the drawing books. Just not to my taste at all, and limited to only a couple of authors.

Several of my favorite WOWIO fictions came from Breakneck, which, I understand, is now variancepublishing.com. I’m not sure whether the change was a straight buyout or what. In any case, there are some pretty good thrillers on their list of titles.

From what I saw, WOWIO had relatively few advertisers. And I read on a comics blog that 2 of their principal sponsors are in some financial trouble just now.

It will be interesting to see what the old WOWIO becomes.

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