On Jan 20, 2012, at 6:51 PM,1/20, LuKreme wrote: > It’s a lot more than a fee to Apple. It is exclusive, unlimited, perpetual > publishing rights to Apple and completely at their discretion. You *have* to > publish through APple and they can decide to not publish what you wrote. > >> Proprietary software restricts your freedom. > > Not like this.
It's only the iBooks version of the file that can be published only via Apple. You're certainly free to publish for Kindle or whatever using other non-Apple tools . . .and are free to publish iBooks titles using other software and selling them through other means. What you can't do is publish with Apple provided *free* tools . . .output an iBook . . .and sell it other than through Apple. You only have to publish through Apple if you *choose* to use their tools . .. use something else and you can publish anyway you want. Create a pdf, create an epub with Calibre, output an epub from Pages . . .and you can sell it directly on your web site or whatever you want. While one can wish for a more lenient license . . .it's clearly not in Apple's interest to allow you to use a free tool they provide to publish content that is designed to work on their hardware . . .and then sell it via Amazon or whatever; hence they wrote the license so as not to go against their own interest. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
