lkmiller wrote:I just purchased a Tor Book which had this in the description: "At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied." I went to my Nook library here on the website, downloaded a copy, tried to open it in something other than the Nook app (first, ADE and then Calibre). No luck because it DOES have DRM.
Looks like they've added the DRM-free message to all the Tor Books descriptions, but it seems they still actually have DRM. Anyone able to get a Tor Book from BN which was DRM-free (as they are suppose to be now)?
Did you contact B&N or the publisher? I've had that happen to me with other ebooks, but as long as I can read it on one of my devices, I haven't fussed about it. yet...
ADE won't recognize a DRM ebook if it's already been downloaded. You'll have to download it again using the "open" option, then choose ADE as the program to use to open it. ADE will download it and you can read it with ADE.
compulsivereaderTX wrote:
lkmiller wrote:I just purchased a Tor Book which had this in the description: "At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied." I went to my Nook library here on the website, downloaded a copy, tried to open it in something other than the Nook app (first, ADE and then Calibre). No luck because it DOES have DRM.
Looks like they've added the DRM-free message to all the Tor Books descriptions, but it seems they still actually have DRM. Anyone able to get a Tor Book from BN which was DRM-free (as they are suppose to be now)?
Did you contact B&N or the publisher? I've had that happen to me with other ebooks, but as long as I can read it on one of my devices, I haven't fussed about it. yet...
ADE won't recognize a DRM ebook if it's already been downloaded. You'll have to download it again using the "open" option, then choose ADE as the program to use to open it. ADE will download it and you can read it with ADE.
I think the OP was using ADE to check the book for DRM. If the book did not have DRM, then it would be readable in ADE.
Was it John Scalzi? I know his book Redshirts, released at the beginning of June, was the first Tor ebook to be DRM-free. Since that happened about a month before the rest of the Tor books were schedule to drop the DRM, it's understandable that there were some glitches.
Since the book I just bought originally came out last year, I imagine it just hasn't been updated yet. Although you would think that they would remove the DRM before they changed the product description. Probably a case of the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing. Ah well, they will eventually get it straightened out. Maybe with a few helpful nudges from customers. 
lkmiller wrote:Was it John Scalzi? I know his book Redshirts, released at the beginning of June, was the first Tor ebook to be DRM-free. Since that happened about a month before the rest of the Tor books were schedule to drop the DRM, it's understandable that there were some glitches.
Since the book I just bought originally came out last year, I imagine it just hasn't been updated yet. Although you would think that they would remove the DRM before they changed the product description. Probably a case of the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing. Ah well, they will eventually get it straightened out. Maybe with a few helpful nudges from customers.
Yes, that was it! For some reason I just could not remember who it was. It was a fairly recent podcast, and I think he said they were still having some issues, but that Tor was trying to fix the books as they find out about them. I'd probably still contact Tor in case they don't realize the book you bought still had drm. It's possible that the retailers are still trying to work through changing some of Tor's backlist.
