Tor announced
ages ago that they were going to open up a store to sell their titles in DRM-free e-book form. By the end of 2012. Right.
Having had no end of trouble buying elsewhere*, I was holding out, and it just ain't happening. But! Quietly, at some point, the Wheel of Time fansite
Dragonmount set up a
store, heavily emphasizing the DRM-free nature, and are selling
everything from Tor. Now, as soon as I can get my wallet to stop hiding in the closet, I'll start running up a tab...
Incidentally, when HarperCollins did the Humble Bundle, I was hoping they were coming around (and rebought plenty of books I already owned.) Yeah, they're still using DRM, and
also adding watermarks. Sigh.
Publishers, I have a lot of mass-market paper that I'd like to start (EDIT:
stop) hauling around. There's a pretty big opportunity here to sell me a book a second time. Your move.
* "Independent" bookstore? Fulfilled through Google, with DRM. Neither Google nor independent was willing to help. Tor editor emailed me the book. Scratch Google and the independent. Kobo? Different publisher, but sold me a collection that was missing one component, not willing to help. Editor emailed me the book. Amazon? I don't even want to try, so editor doesn't need to email me the book.