It may go without saying, but we here at WOWIO love books. Because of this, one of our greatest pleasures is in taking one of our favorite titles and applying some tender loving book-design care, with a goal of producing the most beautiful edition available in any form, whether in print or ebook format.

So it is with great parental pride that we introduce the latest title in the WOWIO Classics series — The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame’s timeless storytelling is now framed in a beautiful book design by Stuff Creators Design Studio and adorned with all-new, full-color artwork by Colin Throm

Enjoy!

May’s Book of the Month is Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It set the tone for her later, wildly successful detective fiction novels, and it introduced her signature characters Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings.

This special “remastered” volume includes the original illustrations from the 1920 edition that create a proper whodunit air, so you can play along at home — download it now!

As another Earth Day approaches, we’d like to pause for a moment to consider our daily work here at WOWIO and how it affects the planet’s health.

Ebooks are the core of our business. These digital alternatives and adjuncts to printed books are one part of the publishing industry’s move to reduce the environmental impacts associated with reading. Ebooks are an enormous step forward compared to the impacts of traditional printed books, such as the consumption of some 30 million trees for titles sold in the US alone, along with the energy use, carbon release and waste by-products associated with their printing, distribution and disposal.

Other aspects of our daily work include energy-saving telecommuting, partnership with environment-minded organizations like Celsias and, perhaps most significantly, our underlying belief that education and expanded access to the written word will ultimately help all of us make informed choices in our stewardship of the Earth.

We also acknowledge that our business has its impacts, from the not-insignificant environmental cost of running the Internet and WOWIO’s piece of that infrastructure to the life-cycle costs of the devices needed to read our content. While we believe our efforts result in a substantial net benefit, we are continuing to work on a number of initiatives to further mitigate our impacts and we’ll continue to report here on our efforts.

In the meantime, take a look at a few thought-provoking titles (above right) to consider this Earth Day…

DreamWorks Studios today announced that it has optioned the rights to make a feature film from Platinum Studios’ sci-fi comic book miniseries Atlantis Rising.

“No sea horses or tridents here,” said producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (writers and producers of the upcoming film Star Trek and the hit TV series Alias). “The comic brings a fresh, techno-thriller approach to a story that holds all the tenets of a classic us-versus-them alien invasion movie.”

The first four of five titles in the series are available on WOWIO now!

Alan Moore’s Supreme — reissued by Checker on WOWIO — is voted among the Top 100 Comic Book Runs by Comics Should Be Good readers at leading online comics magazine CBR.

Twenty-five Supreme and other titles by comics legend Alan Moore — creator of other classics such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta — are available.

Check out Supreme now!

April is not only the start of baseball season, it’s also National Poetry Month! We have quite a strong collection of poetry from BOA Editions, Insomniac Press, Soft Skull and other publishers.

Browse the collection now…

To celebrate the start of baseball season, we’re declaring April’s Book of the Month — Zane Grey’s The Red-Headed Outfield and Other Baseball Stories.

Grey is best remembered for his American “wild west” tales published as periodical series and books. But the young Grey was also a talented ball player, including a stint in the minor leagues.

Read Grey’s take on the great American pastime!

With work described as “delicate and grotesque, tragic and hilarious, precarious but perfectly balanced” and metaphorically equated to getting one’s head lopped off (in a good way), David Ohle is poised to release a new novel with his uniquely disturbing and insightful blend of dystopia, allegory and humor.

The Pisstown Chaos, from Soft Skull Press, is due to hit the bookstores in July. But you can download the complete book — for free, as always — from WOWIO today.

Read more…

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the March book of the month is a collection of classic toasts reflecting universal themes of patriotism, friendship, love and loss, as well as convivial, humorous and sundry sentiments expressed with the raise of a glass — all filtered through an Irish perspective.

Download it now!

We've gathered together all of the WOWIO RSS news feeds in one place. Now you can easily stay up to date on the latest releases in your favorite categories -- books, comics, fiction, nonfiction, literature and more -- never miss a great new title again.

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Just in time for you last-minute Valentines or any other upcoming occasion... now you can try out WOWIO gifting, and the first gift you send is free!

Find the book on WOWIO that best matches the occasion, and click "Gift this Ebook" to get started.

Now you can keep up with WOWIO's Top 10 Books and Top 10 Comics lists, along with the latest WOWIO news.

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As the PBS series on the works of Jane Austen draws to a close, we have chosen her third published novel, Mansfield Park, as our February Book of the Month.

It chronicles the life of the main character, Fanny Price, a poor relation sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. A tale of character and sensibility, Fanny, sensitive and shy, is torn between her duty to her family at Mansfield Park and her duty to her own conscience. In this work, Austen continues her exploration of the themes of money and marriage, of choices and consequences, of appearance and reality.

Download it now!

We're pleased to introduce a new feature that enables registered users to quickly and easily personalize ebooks and then send them to friends and family as gifts. Whether for birthdays, holidays, or just because, a WOWIO ebook is a personalized gift your friends and family can appreciate and really use... and they can receive it instantly!

Click on the "Gift an Ebook" link at the bottom of any page for more information, or go to any book that you want to give and click on the "Gift This Ebook" button.

Read more about gifting.

January's title is Mark Twain's classic cross-century mashup pitting a modern, nineteenth century Yankee's pluck and ingenuity against the oppressive institutions and medieval mores of Arthurian England. Twain mercilessly strips away any romantic notions of Camelot with barbed wit even as he casts his own storytelling spell.

Experience comics in a whole new way, with frames that come to life in 3D! Scott Christian Sava and Blue Dream Studios are creating special animated editions of the all-ages fan favorite, The Dreamland Chronicles... available only on WOWIO.

Check out the first special edition -- The Dreamland Chronicles 28 (ANIMATED!).

Give it a try!

Several new titles from RotoVision SA explore the art, science and magic of photography.

Capturing reality is the theme of Black & White Photography: Photojournalism. It gets you inside the heads of leading photographers, examining both technique and philosophy as they capture the shots that tell whole stories without a word. Capturing a very different kind of reality is what Extreme Photography is all about. It presents "the hottest, coldest, fastest, slowest, nearest, farthest, brightest, darkest, largest, smallest, weirdest images in the universe..."

Whether you're a photographer looking to extend your skills or simply a consumer of stunning imagery, be sure to take a look!