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Old 05-28-2014, 05:27 PM   #16
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It sounds like it was a good speech but you could probably hear crickets in that crowd.

A large proportion of the indie ebooks I see would probably be direct competition with Tor. If they were feeling the competition from the indies then I suspect that had something to do with the decision to go DRM free. Whatever the reason I applaud them for doing it and I'm glad to hear they still aren't seeing a negative impact.
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Old 05-28-2014, 05:34 PM   #17
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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).
Actually, it was 8 years ago, not five. I bought some of those books and was able to check the release dates - May 1, 2006. It's scary to think how time flies.
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DRM is inevitably cracked so that it seems like wasted money to invest in any scheme. Why pay Adobe for their software when it is trivially easy to circumvent? Most books can be found for free with Google but many people still choose to pay despite high prices, poor quality control, geo-restrictions and DRM. I wonder how many people would pay for their books if DRM was unbreakable? I have a few TOR books and I can't say I'm impressed by the minimal proofing in some of those books.
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And the quotation of particular interest to me is this one:

“...the lack of DRM in Tor ebooks has not increased the amount of Tor books available online illegally, nor has it visibly hurt sales.”
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