Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group, a publishing company based in New York City.
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13 Facts About Tor Books
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Tor Books was founded by Tom Doherty, Harriet McDougal, and Jim Baen in 1980.
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Tor Books is a word meaning a rocky pinnacle, as depicted in Tor Books's logo.
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Tor Books publishes two imprints for young readers: Starscape and Tor Teen .
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Tor Books has the Tordotcom imprint that focuses on short works such as novellas, shorter novels and serializations.
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Tor Books Teen publishes young-adult novels such as Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and repackages novels such as Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game for younger readers.
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Authors published by Tor and Forge include Kage Baker, Kevin J Anderson, Steven Brust, Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Carroll, Myke Cole, Charles de Lint, Philip K Dick, Cory Doctorow, Steven Erikson, Sarah Gailey, Terry Goodkind, Steven Gould, Eileen Gunn, James Gunn, Brian Herbert, Glen Hirshberg, Robert Jordan, Richard Matheson, L E Modesitt, Jr.
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Tor Books UK has published authors such as Douglas Adams, Rjurik Davidson, Amanda Hocking, China Mieville, Adam Nevill, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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One year later, Tor Books stated that the removal of DRM had not harmed its e-book business, so they would continue selling them DRM-free.
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In July 2018, Macmillan Publishers and Tor prompted a boycott spread across social media websites and library bulletin boards after they announced that Tor's e-books would no longer be made available for libraries to purchase and lend to borrowers, via digital distribution services such as OverDrive, until four months after their initial publication date.
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Tor Books cited the "direct and adverse impact" of electronic lending on retail eBook sales but suggested that the change was part of a "test program" and could be reevaluated.
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Tor Books won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher in 33 consecutive years from 1988 to 2022 inclusive.
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At that time, Tor Books had received 316 nominations and 54 wins for 723 published novels, written by 197 authors.
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