{"id":1792,"date":"2012-04-27T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2012-04-28T01:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:40:56","slug":"tor-e-book-titles-are-drm-free-from-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/tor-e-book-titles-are-drm-free-from-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor E-book Titles are DRM-Free (from July)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another publisher (Tor) sees the light and from July 2012 will start selling DRM free books. Yay! I have long advocated DRM free books for no other reason than the fact that I would like to read my books on all my platforms (Linux PC, Tablet + Android Phone) without restrictions or compatibility issues. <\/p>\n<p>Tor is mainly a SciFi and Fantasy publisher with some great authors in its line up so I am glad that they are removing DRM from their books. Plus its not like the DRM was stopping anyone from making a copy of a book in any case. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the Smash Words blog for a really good writeup on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smashwords.com\/2011\/03\/readers-authors-and-librarians-against.html\">why DRM doesn&#8217;t work<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five Reasons to Say No to DRM:<br \/>\n    Readers (who know about DRM) don&#8217;t like DRM<br \/>\n    DRM adds expense to books<br \/>\n    DRM makes books complex<br \/>\n    DRM limits accessibility to books, especially for those with vision disabilities who require Text-to-Speech (TTS)<br \/>\n    DRM doesn&#8217;t prevent piracy\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In all this is a great step forward in the fight against DRM. Now we just have to convince the publishers to price the ebooks reasonably and I will be all set. \ud83d\ude42 Ah well, one step at a time. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/torforge-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free?WT.mc_id=0'>Tor\/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free | Tor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another publisher (Tor) sees the light and from July 2012 will start selling DRM free books. Yay! I have long advocated DRM free books for no other reason than the fact that I would like to read my books on all my platforms (Linux PC, Tablet + Android Phone) without restrictions or compatibility issues. Tor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-related","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}