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Tor/Forge ebooks to drop DRM no comments
In what is hopefully the beginning of a new trend, Tom Doherty Associates, which publishes Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen, has announced that by July, 2012 all of their ebooks will be free of DRM.
“Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.”
Tor is most noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles while Forge publishes thrillers, mysteries, historical fiction and general fiction. Tom Doherty Associates is now part of the Macmillan family of publishers.
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Barnes & Noble eBook Store no comments
This week Barnes and Noble launched its new ebook store which is said to contain 700,000 titles. This number includes approximately 500,000 free public domain titles available through Google Books. Next year Plastic Logic’s ebook reader will hit the market and Barnes & Noble will be supporting it with their ebookstore.
By using Barnes & Noble’s reader software the ebooks are currently readable on Mac and Windows computers, iPhones and iPod Touches and several PDA phones.
There is a thoughtful article about Barnes & Noble’s new ebook service in the Washington Post, where it gets a mixed review; and some also interesting follow-up thoughts at TeleRead concerning DRM.
