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  TOR/Forge Unveils DRM-Free eBook Store

  1283 readers The science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor/Forge has revealed plans for a DRM-free eBook store. In July, the publisher will begin selling Tor, Forge, Starscape, Tor Teen, and Orb digital books without copyright protection through the store. If more publishers follow suit, this could dramatically change the way eBooks are sold and read on digital devices. Publisher

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  Has Ebook DRM Finally Been Laid To Rest? Pottermore’s Security System Might Be The Answer.

  2071 readersPottermore (the website of the Harry Potter ebooks) has dispensed with the traditional form of copyright protection – the dreaded and hated DRM system – and instead used a system that allows us to actually own the ebooks we buy from them.   If this takes off, it could finally spell the end of the DRM

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  Retail DRM is an apple; Library DRM is an orange

  1184 readersThat’s the title of an article in The Digital Shift.  Here’s a bit of it: The decision on Tuesday by Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints, to make its entire list of ebooks available DRM-free by early July 2012, caused a tremendous amount of discussion in publishing circles with little

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  The End For DRM? As From Now, All Ebooks From Tor And Forge Will Be Sold DRM Free

  1565 readersGreat news for the ereading world… The promised end of DRM with Sci-Fi publishers Tor and Forge has happened, it is official. From now on all their ebooks will be sold totally DRM free, which means that you can move them from ereader to ereader, lend them to friends and family, and actually own the

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  Britannica Ebooks Now Available for all Schools

  2451 readersMackin educational Resources announce the release of the entire Britannica range of books in ebook form: In a rather amazing move (given the current mania for protecting revenue streams with all manner of restrictive practices by most publishers), Mack...

• Macmillan Publishing Group Signs Second Book in ‘The Tyrant’ Franchise, Also Grabs New ‘Maximillian’ Novel

  746 readers Macmillan Publishing Group Signs Second Book in ‘The Tyrant’ Franchise, Also Grabs New ‘Maximillian’ Novel (via MarketWired) SOURCE: King Midas World Entertainment June 05, 2013 06:00 ET LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – Jun 5, 2013) – King Midas World Entertainment (KMWE) today announced the development of two new books signed with Tom Doherty and Associates. They include

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  Tor to dump DRM in the UK, too

  842 readersIn what must be some of the least surprising news ever, one day after Tor’s US imprint, Tor/Forge, announced it was going DRM-free by July, Tor UK has just made the same announcement. It’s pretty clear they were planning this all along; I expect the reason they staggered them was to try to get two

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  Random thoughts on copyright protection (DRM) of ebooks and illegal downloading of ebooks

  1101 readersWhen you download an ebook, what have you actually bought?  Did you simply buy the right to read it, or have we bought the physical book simply in another form? I found myself contemplating the problems that many of my readers experience in understanding the whole idea of DRM on ebooks – Or any other digital

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  Macmillan’s Tor Imprint Launches DRM-Free E-Bookstore at Tor.com

  1371 readersBy Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Following its recent announcement that it will be selling its e-books without DRM starting this summer, Macmillan’s Tor/Forge science fiction and fantasy imprint has announced that it will be selling those e-books through its own store. The store at Tor.com will sell DRM-free e-books “from all of the Tor

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  Tor/Forge to launch DRM-free direct-to-consumer e-book store

  1348 readersTor/Forge has announced, via a posting to blog Tor.com, the impending creation of a direct-to-consumer DRM-free e-book store, to carry SF books from Tor and fantasy books from Forge. The store is scheduled to go live sometime in “the summer of 2012,” which meshes with Tor’s prior announcement that all its books would be going