HCPL's version of Overdrive offers something for everyone: ebooks, audio books, music and movies. LibriVox is just ebooks in the public domain. This type of project is being duplicated in other sites like the wiki Project Gutenburg. Pretty soon the libraries won't need to worry if they have enough titles in their Classics section, we can just send them to these sites. Wowio is a Houston-based company that claims to be "the only source where readers can legally download high-quality copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. Readers have access to a wide range of offerings, including works of classic literature, college textbooks, comic books, and popular fiction and non-fiction titles."
Wowio looks intriguing. I found a lot of non-fiction works that I want to explore further. Overdrive is a comprehensive online collection that offers even some of the newest bestsellers. No contest, Overdrive wins!
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