Online digital content marketplace Readwhere has partnered with Comic Con India to launch a new initiative called 'Free Comic Book Weekend', to allow Readwhere users to download Indian comics for free on May 4-5, 2013. Among the comic titles being offered through this initiative include titles from Diamond Comics, Pop Culture Publishing, Campfire Graphic Novels, Level 10 Comics, Chariot Comics, Amar Chitra Kath, and Sufi Comics. When we checked, we noticed that the site is offering various comic titles like Tinkle and Pandavas and titles from comic characters like Pinki and Chacha Chaudhary and users can currently claim any five comic books from the list of books offered. Note that these comics are DRM-locked and users can read these comics on Readwhere website or across its iOS, Android and Windows 8 apps. Its currently not clear if this list will be changed on a daily basis. Readwhere currently offers newspaper, magazines, comics, books and journals on its portal and also allows users to digitize and publish their work in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi languages for sale. Readwhere app: We checked the app from our Android handset (Micromax A90S) and noticed that it offers magazines, books, journals, and comics on its home tab. Users can filter content based on newspaper, books, journals, magazines, or comics. It also seems to aid discovery with featured content, fresh arrivals and just published sections. The service offers a mixture of free and paid books, although we noticed that the service offers a significantly higher number of paid books and limited free books. The app currently allows one to browse through…
