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WOWIO announces deal with Ingram no comments
WOWIO today announced a deal with Ingram Content Group to add hundreds of thousands of titles from the Ingram catalogue to the WOWIO marketplace. The new content will include titles from such major publishers as Random House, McGraw-Hill and Harlequin.
Content at WOWIO is often subsidized by advertisers. This will not be the case with the new titles from Ingram, which will only be available at retail pricing.
Starting on November 1, WOWIO users will have access to hundreds of thousands of titles currently in the Ingram catalogue. Further integration of the eBooks will be completed over the coming months. New titles updated in the Ingram catalogue will be automatically added to the WOWIO library. The titles from Ingram will include ePub, Adobe PDF and eReader formats and will include traditional DRM regulations.
WOWIO will benefit from the increased amount of titles available for its readers to browse, discover and purchase providing an increase of traffic and revenue through WOWIO’s sponsorship model. WOWIO provides readers with free or discounted eBooks by bringing on advertisers to sponsor specific titles or categories. Although the Ingram library will be available for retail purchase only, their presence on the site allows WOWIO to attract more readers and introduce them to a wide variety of sponsored content ranging from comics, graphic novels and classic literature.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/16/2010 no comments
Just catching up on a few short items:
About three weeks ago The Sharper Image Literati ereader was announced. The new ebook reader made an appearance at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular in Manhattan yesterday and PC Magazine got a hands-on.
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Intel launched its AppUp app store at IDF 2010 in San Francisco. This is an app store with content designed for netbooks. Consumers can install the AppUp client on multiple devices where it will keep track of their app purchases and allow installation of purchased apps on multiple devices. One interesting app that will be included in the store is the Barnes & Noble NOOK ereading app.
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HTC Sense mobile phones will be including an ereading application and a “powered by Kobo” ebookstore. The ebookstore will be available globally. The first phone to come with the Kobo shopping experience will be the HD Desire HD.
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Amazon has apparently caught up with the Kindle 3 orders — Both the Wi-Fi only and the Wi-Fi + 3G models are now in stock.
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WOWIO has built a new online reader designed specifically for the iPad and the Safari browser. Now you can enjoy graphic novels from WOWIO on your iPad without having to download PDF files. For details see the WOWIO blog or fire up the browser on your iPad and go to wowio.com.
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Free Kindle Books – 7/2/2010 no comments
A couple of new freebies have shown up at the Kindle Store:
Darkfever: The Fever Series
Out of Bounds: Love of Sports book 1
Wowio has just remodeled their website, and to celebrate they are offering a free book download in PDF format. There are no DRM strings attached to this one, so you should be able to enjoy it on any device that is comfortable with the PDF format. “The Choir Boats” is a fantasy novel by Daniel A. Rabuzzi, and over at Amazon it gets a rating of 5 stars with 4 reviews. This free download is available from the Wowio blog.
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WOWIO Expanding no comments
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.
