Publishers Starting to Reject e-Book DRM

Publishers Starting to Reject e-Book DRM
ReadWriteWeb
Tor/Forge is dropping DRM because its customers, and authors, have been asking for DRM-free titles. The game isn't won yet, but it's a safe bet that Tor/Forge won't be the first to abandon Digital Rights Management for e-books and other publications.

Tor ditches DRM-protection from its e-book library
BBC News
Science fiction publisher Tor UK is dropping digital rights management from its e-books alongside a similar move by its US partners. DRM is used as an anti-piracy measure, but limits a user's ability to read a title on different devices.

BBC News

Sci-fi publisher Tor Books says it's scrapping DRM
TG Daily
It says that by early July this year, the entire list of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen e-books will be available DRM-free. Tor has one of the longest lists of any English language science fiction publisher, including China Mieville, author of ...

TG Daily

“Fifty Shades of Grey” author EL James to speak in DC next week
Washington Post (blog)
And given the book's ever-increasing popularity and movie deal, fans might want to line up early for the 7 pm appearance on Friday, May 4. This book cover image provided by Vintage Books shows "Fifty Shades of Grey," by EL James.

Move over, ladies! Men are fans of 'Fifty Shades' too
msnbc.com
Reading on iPads and Kindles or hurriedly picking up the books in stores, some didn't know about the romance part, thinking the surprise best-seller by newcomer EL James would be more "American Psycho" than steamy Harlequin. Others knew exactly what...

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Men are fans, too, of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Seattle Post Intelligencer
LEANNE ITALIE, AP This combo made of book cover images provided by Vintage Books shows the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by best-selling author EL James. They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight _ and those are just the MEN who ...

Book Talk: 15 cars that shaped American life
Reuters
By Bernard Vaughan | NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Author and journalist Paul Ingrassia is a passionate car buff who covered the automobile industry for more than 25 years, working for the Wall Street Journal and winning both a Pulitzer Prize and ...

Author: US averting gaze from Syria slaughter
CNN
CNN's John King spoke with Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the soon-to-be released book "The Syrian Rebellion." Here's an edited version of their conversation: JOHN KING: Kofi Annan, ...

New book chronicles transcendent 1968 baseball season and volatile political ...
Kansas City Star
Author Tim Wendel specializes in telling great baseball stories. Da Capo Press recently released his latest work: "Summer of 1968, The Season that Changed Baseball - and America - Forever." While the book focuses on the two major league teams that met ...

Simon Cowell Apologizes for Salacious Book Revelations
E! Online
While giving a thumbs-up to the bawdy book at a launch party at London's Serpentine gallery Wednesday night, Cowell offered a mea culpa to his celebrity guests, saying extracts of the tome that were published in the UK's Sun newspaper made him want to...

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Author Picks Up the Pieces After Near Death Experience and Motivates Other Women
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- When the 12th annual KJLH Women's Health Forum opens Saturday, April 28, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Author and Life Coach Michelle Hannah will be among experts with takeaway ...

Young Readers Will Never Run Out of Books With MeeGenius
Wired News
Decker will be 5 next month, and he's now reading a few books on his own and quite proud of himself. I watch him use his finger as he moves from word to word, and I love watching him try to sound out words before asking for help.

Rights groups urge Jordan to release publisher
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — International rights groups urged Jordan Thursday to immediately release the publisher of an online newspaper who was arrested after his website posted an article alleging misconduct by royal officials.

E-Book Prices May Drop In Short Term
WESH Orlando
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When the Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five majorbook publishers alleging e-book price fixing, the government hawked it as a triumph for consumers. The other champ, of course, was Amazon -- which called the ...

Five books published in India on Commonwealth shortlist
New York Daily News
New Delhi, April 26 — Indian publishing is carving a formidable space for itself on the Commonwealth Book Prize list for 2012 with five titles published in the country on the shortlist. All the books, including two by a Pakistani writer and a Sri ...

Debut author Beatriz Williams interviews Jayne Ann Krentz
USA TODAY
By Joyce Lamb, USA TODAY That squee heard 'round the world not too long ago came from debut author Beatriz Williams upon finding out she would be interviewing USA TODAY best-seller Jayne Ann Krentz for this blog post. See, HEA likes to hook people up ...

USA TODAY

Mystery solved!
Chicago Tribune
E-books can be even more profitable for authors. At virtually no cost, authors can upload a book to Amazon and offer it for sale. If the sale price is $9.99 (the price publishers call untenable), then the author can earn more than $7 per e-book (three ...

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May books preview, 'Fifty Shades' is No. 1
USA TODAY
By Lindsay Deutsch, USA TODAY --May books preview: Get ready for summer with hot new May releases! USA TODAY's Carol Memmott rounds up the top 10 high-profile books coming out next month, including Toni Morrison's newest and a prequel to The Godfather.

USA TODAY

Tor drops DRM from e-books, unlocking digital controls
Los Angeles Times (blog)
But DRM doesn't necessarily prevent piracy, while it does create obstacles to sharing legitimately purchased e-books among devices. “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” president and publisher Tom Doherty said in the ...

Wiley Announces 22 New Books on Adobe Creative Suite 6
MarketWatch (press release)
Beginning in May, Wiley will publish more than twenty new books on the Adobe Creative Suite 6 product line, including: The new Adobe CS6 books from Wiley will be available for purchase online and at retailers nationwide in both print and all e-book ...

Think Like a Man Isn't Just Sexist: It's Offensive to Pretty Much Everyone
Huffington Post
When Steve Harvey's shamelessly self-promoting advice book isn't offering up observations everyone already knows, it's crazy sexist. According to the book (and the film), women should seek to control a man to get what they want, as if they are the ...

Capture the Magic of Reading during TD Canadian Children's Book Week
Sacramento Bee
Children's book author, Vikki VanSickle, one of the 29 authors who will be conducting the public readings across Canada, remembers vividly why she fell in love with reading books as a child. "Every one of us remembers those moments when you've become ...

Best Selling Authors and Thought Leaders Peppers and Rogers Publish Ninth Book ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Two decades, eight books, and several disruptive technologies later, Peppers and Rogers establish a new, equally powerful idea in their ninth book, Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage. In Extreme Trust, on sale today, Peppers and Rogers ...

HiveFire eBook Wins Killer Content Award
MarketWatch (press release)
The company was honored for raising the bar in content marketing tactics with its eBook, "Five Simple Steps to Becoming a Content Curation Rock Star (in 19 Minutes or Less)," which provides marketers with a road map for making curation the platinum hit ...

Germany prepares to publish Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' after 70 years
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Bavaria said it would also publish a school version, an English language edition, an e-book and an audio book. The decision follows a change of heart by Germany's Central Council of Jews. Stephan Kramer, its general secretary, recently backed the idea ...

EL James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is No. 1 on Best-Selling Books list
USA TODAY
By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY EL James' erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey — thebook everybody in America seems to be talking about — has reached the top spot on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, dominating even Suzanne Collins.

USA TODAY

3M launches its Cloud Library e-book lending service, hardware and ...
By Billy Steele
Almost a year after it was first announced 3M's Cloud Library e-book lending service is getting a proper rollout. Introduced today at a beta site in ... E-books will play nicely with your iPad, Nook or Android device via the Cloud Library app. If you find yourself needing to read a ... "With this technology, we are able to offer cutting-edge technology to all our patrons, whether they own their own e-reader or not," said Kit Hadley, director of the Saint Paul Public Library. A handful of other library ...
Engadget

Hollywood loves books | LISNews:
By Blake
When you hear the words “Los Angeles,” you immediately think “books.” It's a book town. They have this huge book festival every year, sponsored by the L.A. Times, which is staffed by book lovers who emcee book awards and moderate panel ...
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Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. ...
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Massachusetts: Milton Public Library Joins Freading e-Book ...
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Neal Stephenson Stars in Book Trailer about the Inherent Silliness ...
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The Kill Zone: Author Affirmations with Stuart Smalley
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These have come from author speaking engagements, emails, or things I've found online that inspired me enough to post it where I could see them every day. Affirmations can be reminders of author craft you want to repeat or they can be a ...
The Kill Zone

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The author Jose Rodriguez, a retired CIA officer who ordered the destruction of the videos, says in thebook that he was tired of waiting for Washington's bureaucracy to make a decision on protecting Americans. Rodriguez, who oversaw the ...
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Make: Talk 014 - "Programming Your Home" Author Mike Riley ...
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Revisiting Engaging Informational Picture Books | educating alice
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There are many ways to do this, one of them being a greater emphasis on nonfiction picture books. Here are a few older books I've much admired for their spare and elegant text, compelling voice, original design, fresh ways of presenting ...
educating alice

The Millions : If It's Free, Take It: 2012 World Book Night
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Last weekend I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books as both a reader and an author. This means I ... As its website explains, “World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which will see tens of thousands of people share books with others in their communities across America to spread the joy and love of reading on April 23.” The program began last year in the U.K. to great success, and the literary holiday will hopefully reach even more countries by 2013.
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Karen Dalton-Beninato: Authors and Agents and Tennessee ...
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“After Camelot” book | MyFOX8.com – Greensboro, High-Point ...
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"After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present" is a comprehensively researched, revelatory new book about the Kennedy clan that closes the final chapter on one of America's most celebrated political dynasties.
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cryptogon.com » Sci-fi Publisher Announces Tor and Forge Will Go ...
By Kevin
Sci-fi Publisher Announces Tor and Forge Will Go DRM-Free with All E-Book Titles ... Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free. ... It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.” ... Material from external sources: Copyright the respective owners / authors.
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Dr. Seuss book banned from class for being too 'political'
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Guest Author: Anna Quindlen - Barnes & Noble Book Clubs
Grealy was a lyrical stylist, a poet turned prose writer, but it is her unsparing honesty and lack of self-pity and bathos that elevates this book, published eight ...
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