Guys, guys! Buy eBooks from TOR!
Apr. 24th, 2012 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneExcuse me while I bounce.
TOR/Forge publishers, according to this entry from John Scalzi's blog, is going DRM-free with their eBooks by early July.
Even better, they're announcing it in terms of RESPECT FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS.
"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."
What say we all buy a TOR eBook or three on Independence Day, to encourage this behavior? I'm certainly gonna. I welcome title recommendations -- if I can't find anything particular I want to read, I may just pick some TOR title at random.
TOR/Forge publishers, according to this entry from John Scalzi's blog, is going DRM-free with their eBooks by early July.
Even better, they're announcing it in terms of RESPECT FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS.
"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."
What say we all buy a TOR eBook or three on Independence Day, to encourage this behavior? I'm certainly gonna. I welcome title recommendations -- if I can't find anything particular I want to read, I may just pick some TOR title at random.
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Date: 2012-04-25 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-25 11:18 am (UTC)Scalzi points out in his blog post that TOR is still going to prosecute copyright infringements just as vigorously. And really, DRM doesn't prevent piracy. It makes piracy a little less convenient, but once one pirate breaks the DRM on an ebook, the whole world can get at it. So mostly what DRM accomplishes is to annoy readers and make them more resentful of the publishers, which certainly doesn't breed respect for content-owners rights.
Plus, as
My hat's off to TOR.