On 20 January 2012 23:51, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s a lot more than a fee to Apple. It is exclusive, unlimited, perpetual > publishing rights to Apple
O RLY? Once you've used iBooks Author to create a book, Apple can seize it from you and publish it without your say-so for evermore? There's more than enough hyperbole around this issue without coming out with nonsense like "perpetual". Think of free usage of iBooks Author as a kind of advance fee. If you don't want to be beholden to the publisher, don't take the advance fee. I can't help but feel that most people getting up in arms about this have never worked with traditional publishers. It's an overall improvement to the traditional industry, just as the iTunes Music Store was an improvement when it first arrived, even though it had DRM; and if you preferred to carry on buying CDs and ripping them DRM-free, you were free to do so, just as you're free to carry on writing eBooks in your previously-preferred manner. I just don't understand people's sense of entitlement. A week ago, this tool didn't exist, and you couldn't use it. Now you can, if you're willing to submit to restrictions. In what way are you worse off? That said, I imagine tools to convert the output of iBooks Author to standard ePub will be just around the corner, and I don't see Apple being able to prevent people from doing so, either technically or legally. H _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
