Monday, November 19, 2007

Week 9 -- downloadable Media

LibiVox is a free ebook site. Most of the titles are classics in public domain. It would be a good alternative when the library copy is not available. At least you have a copy to work with. It has 1035 titles. You can browse alphabetically or search by title author or subject. Subject or genre browse is not available.

Wowio has an attractive homepage displaying the latest releases with book jacket. The top book and staff's favorite list are also nice features to promote titles. The The site uses commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers so the coverage is more diverse and not limiting to public domain titles. You can even request titles that are not on the list. I created account and downloaded a game book in PDF format. Fast connection is needed for 10MB books. Kudos to WOWio.

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