![]() ![]() When I realized today that the launch had never happened I queried Tor.com and Tor/Forge and asked for an update. So what happened to the ebookstore? I don’t know. I think they may have missed the window by a little bit, don’t you? Sure, there is an announcement and there is even a page on tor.com, but that page still shows the same placeholder image it showed last year: The thing is, Macmillan may have announced the ebookstore but they never actually got around to launching that ebookstore. No major publisher had made a similar effort, so I was eager to see if this ebookstore could succeed at selling ebooks and (more importantly) making customers happy.Īdmittedly, it hasn’t actually been a year since this ebookstore was announced, but with BEA 2013 kicking off tomorrow I thought that now would be the right time to look back and chart this ebookstore’s success. It was going to sell all of the frontlist and (available) backlist titles from Tor, Forge, Orb, and other imprints by the SF publisher Tor/Forge Books. The Tor.com ebookstore broke with the much of the rest of the publishing industry and had a novel goal of selling DRM-free Epub ebooks directly to customers. This ebookstore, which was one of Macmillan’s two major DRM-free efforts of 2012, got a lot of attention last year. It’s been just under a year since Macmillan announced plans to launch an ebookstore at Tor.com, and what a year it’s been.
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