Thread: Two Years after Tor's DRM-free Announcement
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Old 04-25-2014, 05:03 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
It should also be noted that one of their major competitors, Baen, has always been DRM-Free, and having DRM was a competitive disadvantage. With some of Tor's authors also being Baen authors, there was a fair amount of pressure on them internally, I'm sure. So while there may have been a slight increase in piracy (I doubt it), the offsetting increase in sales from customers who had avoided them because of the DRM was more than sufficient to cover.

IAC, Tor is to be commended for dropping DRM, and sticking to it.
Tor's management was always interested in DRM-free ebooks and had started a trial selling DRM-free books via the Baen website back about 5 years ago, which got cancelled within days of starting by upper management at Bertelsmann (Tor's ultimate owner).
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