Back in 2012 Tor Books, a science fiction publisher, announced that it would abandon digital rights management (DRM) and sell its works online DRM-free. There was the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth about the risk Tor was taking. But none of these fears came to fruition. "People worried, behind the scenes, 'What have we done? Will this hurt backlist sales?'... the opposite seems to be true... Fears about online piracy simply did not pan out: the books in question continued to sell just as well as before, if not better."
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