2/24/2023 0 Comments Tor publishing store![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t say that there is anything that we’d do differently, really. Is there anything that you would do differently given the experience you’ve had? Once again, I wasn’t around back then (I was then the low man on the totem pole in Tor Books’ art department at the time), but I think around 18 months, give or take. How long was the site in the planning stages? They asked Tom Doherty for his blessing, and permission to use the Tor brand, but wisely kept the site separate from the daily workings of Tor Books.įritz is a very smart and forward-looking guy (and I’m not just saying that because he’s the guy who’s in charge of giving me a raise!), Irene, Patrick, and Teresa are all well-known bloggers and quite familiar with the way the social internet works, so they had a very clear idea of what they wanted-and didn’t want-the site to be. ![]() I wasn’t involved in Tor.com back then, but as I understand it, the seed of the idea came about from a conversation between (Tor Books Art Director) Irene Gallo, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books Senior Editor) and my current boss, Fritz Foy (VP of Strategic Technology for Macmillan), who is also a lifelong SF fan-‘one of us’ in every sense of the word. The complete interview text starts below the jump. However, he did have a number of fascinating things to say about the site itself, and his own attitudes toward e-books. ![]() Our conversation ranged from the Tor.com blog itself, to the free e-book giveaway that kicked off the site, to the much-anticipated but still-absent Tor.com e-book store.ĭefendini noted that Tor.com was a separate subsidiary from Tor Books the publisher, and as an employee of Tor.com he was unable to answer questions pertaining to Tor Books’s stance on e-books or its e-book ventures prior to Tor.com (such as Tor Webscriptions). I conducted an interview with Pablo Defendini, Producer and blogger for Tor.com, via Google Wave. ![]()
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