Here's an interesting blogpost by Tor-published author Charles Stross, who, apparently, was consulted somewhat by the Tor/Macmillan people regarding this due to his earlier one about Amazon:
More on DRM and ebooks
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Last week's blog entry on Amazon's ebook strategy went around the net like a dose of rotavirus. And, as we can now see from Tor's ground-breaking announcement I was only just ahead of the curve: people at executive level inside Macmillan were already asking whether dropping DRM would be a good move. Last week they asked me to explain, in detail, just why I thought abandoning DRM on ebooks was a sensible strategy for a publisher. Turns out my blog entry on Amazon's business strategy didn't actually explain my full reasoning on DRM, so here it is.
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I've really only read Stross' Penguin/Ace-published stuff, but when Tor goes DRM-free and has decent pricing, I think I'll have to try his alternate timeline-switching space opera merchant clan series.