Thread: Tor Books UK on Dumping DRM: "no discernible increase in piracy"
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Old 05-05-2013, 08:21 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by danskmacabre View Post
Thanks for the info.

Having never bought an ebook off the Amazon or Kobo site before, if a publisher (such as Tor) is selling DRM free ebooks, can I tell by just browsing the ebook stores that a drm epub version is available BEFORE I purchase?

Ugh, I hate regional restrictions, it just doesn't make sense to me.
I think all Tor books will be DRM-free on Amazon, Kobo, etc. but how you tell is different on each site. Kobo will specify "EPUB (DRM-free)" in the download options if the books is DRM-free, or "Adobe DRM EPUB" if not.

I buy mainly backlist SF/Fantasy and about 90% of the books I buy from the big publishers are from Tor/Macmillan (All the Macmillan books I have bought were DRM-free too, not just the Tor ones). I think the prices might have more to do with how much the books are pirated, and in New Zealand at least, where there is a Tor edition and another publisher's edition of the same book, the Tor edition is often half the price or less.
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