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Tor is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group. The Forge imprint publishes an array of fictional titles, including historical novels and thrillers. Tor Books has two imprints for young readers: Starscape (for readers 10 years of age and up) and Tor Teen (for readers 13 years of age and up). The
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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
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Early this week, Tor Books, a subsidiary of Tom Doherty Associates and the world's leading publisher of science fiction, gave an update on how its decision to do away with Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes has impacted the company. Long story short: it hasn't,
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A United Kingdom sister imprint, Tor UK, specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and publishes young-adult crossover fiction based on computer-game franchises. Tor UK briefly maintained an open submission policy, which ended in January 2013.
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By March 2018, Tor's record had increased to 579 nominations and 111 wins, across 16 tracked awards given in the covered genres, with a total of 2,353 published novels written by 576 authors.
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e-books by July of that year. One year later, Tor 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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three years later.) They were soon joined by Barbara Doherty and Katherine Pendill, who then composed the original startup team.
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Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles.
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listed Tor as the second-most awarded and nominated publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, after
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poll for best science fiction publisher in 33 consecutive years from 1988 to 2022 inclusive.
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is a word meaning a rocky pinnacle, as depicted in Tor's logo. Tor Books was sold to
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A German sister imprint, Fischer Tor, was founded in August 2016 as an imprint of
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and, in 2012, Doherty announced that his imprints would sell only
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In June 2019, Tor and other Macmillan imprints moved from the
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Forge, Starscape, Tor Teen, Orb, Tordotcom, Nightfire, Bramble
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online magazine, but has its own independent content.
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Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
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Index

Tor UK
Tor (anonymity network)

Parent company
Macmillan
Tom Doherty
Harriet McDougal
Jim Baen
Equitable Building
Macmillan
E-books
Imprints
us.macmillan.com/torpublishinggroup/
imprint
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty
Harriet McDougal
Jim Baen
his own imprint
Tor
St. Martin's Press
Henry Holt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Holtzbrinck
Macmillan
Flatiron Building
Equitable Building
novellas
Orb Books
A. E. van Vogt

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