(Via paidcontent.org) Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen – the genre fiction imprints of US Big Six publisher Macmillan – has announced that from July 2012, all its eBook titles will be released DRM-free, a decision taken by Macmillan CEO John Sargent, with a certain amount of input from Charles Stross.
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Link: Barry Eisler on Amazon vs the Publishing Industry
Amazon-published thriller writer Barry Eisler thinks that rather than vilified as a monopoly / monopsony in waiting, the online retail giant should be applauded for taking on the “the real existing monopoly run by New York’s so-called Big Six”: www.guardian.co.uk.books.