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

  1342 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

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  How Amazon forces the DRM issue

  1459 readersTwo pieces of news from Amazon yesterday - one anticipated, one very surprising. After launching their Romance imprint Montlake it was clear that the company had serious plans to move into regul...

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  Crain’s New York Business profiles Tor DRM-free e-book store plans

  1473 readersCrain’s New York Business has a profile of Tor’s plan for a DRM-free e-book store. (The article is paywalled, but you can read it via Google News search.) It summarizes the situation with the DoJ antitrust lawsuit, and points to that suit and the success of the DRM-free Harry Potter e-book store as the reason

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

  1350 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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  Is DRM About To Die? Tor Books Announce The End Of DRM Protection On All Their Ebooks.

  1461 readersIn what may well be the first sign of the end of them much hated DRM system of copyright protection on ebooks, Macmillan subsidiary Tom Doherty Associates (home to scifi publishers Tor Books, as well as Forge, Orb and others) announced that its entire ebook catalogue will be DRM-free by July 2012. Read more on Is

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  Amazon announces mystery publishing imprint

  1788 readersFollowing up on its announcement of a romance publishing imprint, Amazon has announced it will also launch an imprint called Thomas & Mercer—named for the streets by its Seattle headquarters—this fall, to publish mystery titles. The titles will be available in print, Kindle, and audio formats, from Amazon itself and from national and independent booksellers.

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  TOR/Forge Unveils DRM-Free eBook Store

  1273 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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  Retail DRM is an apple; Library DRM is an orange

  1175 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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  One publisher, Tor/Forge, truly understands reader engagement

  863 readersIt’s easy to always talk about publishers who get it wrong, and yes, lots of them do. Bookish, anyone? (Where you can get recommendations, but it’s all a one way street, and many, if not most, of their articles are aimed at books or authors published by the houses behind the site.) Tor, an imprint

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  Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Could Drop in July

  869 readersWith today’s Google I/O announcement of the Nexus Tablet, the battle of the 7 inch tablets with low prices is pretty much done. Or is it? Considering the Kindle Fire 2 may debut next month, we could see the Nexus Tablet having a fresh rival from the start of its lifespan. One would expect Amazon to