{"id":2165,"date":"2013-05-03T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2013-06-10T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:04:25","slug":"one-year-later-tor-is-delighted-to-be-100-drm-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/one-year-later-tor-is-delighted-to-be-100-drm-free\/","title":{"rendered":"one year later . . . TOR is delighted to be 100% DRM-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Crisp\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/04\/tor-books-uk-drm-free-one-year-later\">writing<\/a>\u00a0in the TOR blog<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protecting our author&#8217;s intellectual copyright will always be of a key concern to us and we have very stringent anti-piracy controls in place. But DRM-protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we believe a great majority of readers are just as against piracy as publishers are, understanding that piracy impacts on an author&#8217;s ability to earn an income from their creative work. As it is, we&#8217;ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>. . . .<\/p>\n<p>The move has been a hugely positive one for us, it&#8217;s helped establish Tor and Tor UK as an imprint that listens to its readers and authors when they approach us with a mutual concern&#8211;and for that we&#8217;ve gained an amazing amount of support and loyalty from the community. And a year on we&#8217;re still pleased that we took this step with the imprint and continue to publish all of Tor UK&#8217;s titles DRM-free.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Crisp\u00a0writing\u00a0in the TOR blog &#8220;Protecting our author&#8217;s intellectual copyright will always be of a key concern to us and we have very stringent anti-piracy controls in place. But DRM-protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we believe a great majority of readers are just as against piracy as publishers are, understanding that piracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}