Wow. Wow-ee. WOWIO. Free, high-quality, ebooks!

“Free Books. Free Minds.” This is the Wowio slogan.

Wowio is an ebook service which allows registered users to download up to 5 ebooks a day. The site has an attractive design and their selection, while not huge, contains enough great title to make the offer very enticing. All the reading is done using Adobe’s ereader software.

And really, who are we to argue with free?

Well, if you’re smart, and I know all you folks who read my blog are smart, you WILL want to know what’s up with the “free” goodness. In this case, there is indeed a “catch.” In exchange for these books, you have to give up lots of personal data regarding your marketing preferences, race, education, and have your id verified by some fairly restrictive means (e.g. you can send scanned identification, give them a credit card for verification, or use a government/militray/state email address). In my opinion, the reward is worth it. I’ve got my data and preferences plastered publicly all over the web anyways. You’ll have to make the determination for yourself.

If you decide you’d like to give this service a whirl, let me know and I’ll send you a token so I get credit. Yeah, I’m a useless shill.