On Jan 20, 2012, at 6:54 PM,1/20, LuKreme wrote: > On 19 Jan 2012, at 16:58 , Neil Laubenthal wrote: > >> and that he could take the same source Word file that he ran through IBA to >> produce an iBook and run it through whatever else to make a Kindle edition >> of the same source file. > > First of all, what if there is no source Word file? What if he wrote it in > iBooks Author?
Authors are free to choose another tool with license requirements more to their liking > > Second of all, a non DRM epub can be loaded into iBooks without a problem. In > fact, you can do this with iBooks Author files, but only if you give them > away for free. > > In short, you cannot sell a DRM-free epub if you use iBooks Author. > > You can defend Apple all you want on this, but it is draconian and absurd. > Imagine if Microsoft claimed 30% of all the money made off any Word file? Not the same thing at all. Word documents have many destinations. iBooks documents are designed to be read on Apple hardware. Word is software you paid for and hence you have some rights to do what you wish with the output. IBA is free, not paid for, and Apple can establish whatever requirements for using their free software they like. Don't like it . . .use something else. It isn't a matter of defending Apple . . .it's a matter of they wrote the software so they get to establish the rules for using it. In addition, I don't see it as draconian or absurd at all. Nobody would actually write the text of their book in IBA . . .it's a layout tool. Text will come in from Word or Pages or BBedit or TextEdit or whatever. IBA is not designed to be a general purpose epub creation tool . . .it's designed specifically and solely to produce iBooks designed for use on Apple's hardware. ----------------------------------------------- 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
