Tor ditches DRM-protection from its e-book library (BBC) [View all]

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.

Tor UK, Tor Books and Forge are divisions of Pan Macmillan, which said it viewed the move as an "experiment".

The firm said it was in discussions with e-book store owners to implement the action within three months.

The business said its authors had been pushing for the action for more than a year.
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