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WOWIO is an online ebook store specializing in graphic novels and comic books. Here you can read complete books online (no Flash – iDevices welcome) for free, which is ad supported, or you can pay to download PDF files that you can read on your ereader or other device. WOWIO uses social DRM – a reader’s authenticated name and other identifying information are embedded in purchased ebooks.
Last week WOWIO announced the close of almost $2 million in private funding. The financing has enabled WOWIO to make a couple of acquisitions and to make improvements to its website. WOWIO’s CEO Brian Altounian elaborates: “In addition to technology, an online community and social networking tools, we have added amazing creative talent which will provide WOWIO with studio capabilities to create original content for broad media exploitation.”
WOWIO announced the acquisition of WEvolt last week. WEvolt provides an array of tools that allow artists working in any medium to upload, promote and monetize their content while bypassing the expensive world of traditional print media.
One of WEvolt’s founders, Jason Badower, is the artist responsible for the television tie-in graphic novels for True Blood (HBO) and Heroes (NBC).
Yesterday WOWIO announced another purchase, this time of DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. DrunkDuck is a leading webcomics community where content creators are able to post their creations and then interact with fans on the site’s forums. This acquisition will expand WOWIO’s content library as well as its user base.
"The DrunkDuck site, community and existing library of content will remain unchanged," said Altounian. "Fans, publishers and advertisers will be pleased to know that it will be business as usual for DrunkDuck as well as WOWIO, and with our recent integration plans with WEvolt, we are unifying known entities and melding them into one superior comic and eBook destination."
WOWIO will also be giving its website a facelift by providing additional search options, a more visual interface and by making it more iPad-friendly. The redesigned site is expected to launch on July 1, 2010.
