First and foremost, more short fiction from a pro-paying market.
This is exciting and encouraging for a lot of reasons. All of them signing up without hesitation to a scheme which would allow their readers greater freedom with their novels.Today, Tor.com announced the launch of a new imprint, called, appropriately, The Imprint, dedicated to publishing “novellas, shorter novels, serializations, and any other pieces of fiction that exceed the traditional novelette length (17,499 words).” This is in addition to their award-winning library of short stories, and aims to further identify Tor.com as one of the leading short fiction (and, now, mid-range fiction) venues in SFF publishing.
In its recent update, it reiterated the support from its authors:Īll of our authors, including bestsellers such as Peter F Hamilton and China Miéville, were incredibly supportive when we asked them to consider removing DRM from their titles. When it announced the decision, Tor said that it was a move that both its authors and readers felt passionately about. Now, roughly a year later, Tor has published a blog post saying categorically that it has "seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles". It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased ebooks 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. It was a controversial move, and one that worried other publishers.Īt the time, president and publisher of the US Tor range, Tom Doherty said that the company felt that DRM was a detriment to its readers:
In April last year, Tor Books, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Pan Macmillan, announced that it would be removing Digital Rights Management software from the digital editions of its books. One year after Tor launched its DRM-free store, the publisher has said that there has been "no discernible increase" in piracy.
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