Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Sci-fi publisher announces Tor and Forge will go DRM-free with all e-book titles (Review #5)


Article Title
"Sci-fi publisher announces Tor and Forge will go DRM-free with all e-book titles"

Article Author
Zachary Lutz

Article Publication Date
April 25th, 2012

URL of Original Article
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/tor-books-goes-drm-free/

Article Summary
Publishers TOR and Forge are removing Digital Rights Management copyright restriction encoding from their ebooks.

Relevance to the Class
This article is relevant to the class as it shows brave steps being taken by a company that can set the standard for new ways of how ebooks are viewed and treated in today's society

Key Quote
The company's president, Tom Doherty, revealed the shift as a long-time request of both its readers and authors -- which unsurprisingly, are a rather tech-savvy bunch."

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