Tor is one of the two primary imprints of New York-based publishing company, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. Martin’s Press in 1986 and later became part of the Holtzbrinck group, now known as Macmillan Publishers.

Department of Justice after accusations of e-book price fixing.Since its founding by Tom Doherty in 1980, Tor Books has won every major science fiction and fantasy award, and for 25 consecutive years, has won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Publisher. In related news, Tor Books parent company Macmillan USA is preparing to square off against the U.S.

It prevents them from using legitimately purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.' 'They're a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. 'Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,' Tom Doherty, president and publisher of Tor Books, said in a statement. The Macmillan-owned company also publishes titles under Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen.īoing Boing, for one, expects that Tor's plan to drop digital-rights management tools might start a wave of other companies following suit, eventually leading to a world where e-book DRM no longer exists.Īmong Tor Books' most well-known titles are 'The Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan, and the Ender saga by Orson Scott Card. The shift will most likely appear seamless to consumers, as an official blog post on the Tor Web site mentions that DRM-free titles will sell at the same retailers that currently sell Tor's books, and will additionally appear on DRM-free-only e-book stores. Science-fiction/fantasy publishing company Tor Books dropped a big bomb on the e-book world today by announcing plans to abolish DRM on its entire collection of e-books in early July.

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