On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Derek Chesterfield wrote: > I see iBooks Author as 'just' a publishing tool, rather than an authoring > tool. You pick the content from elsewhere, mash it together, set meta data, > and hit the publish button. > > There is a similar tool from Apple for publishing music to iTunes. You drop > your original music source in to the tool, set your meta data, e.g. track > name, genre, tell it the segment iTunes should use to preview the track, then > you hit the publish button. > > In the music case, Apple will review the track to ensure the content is > acceptable, and that the meta data is reasonable, e.g. should have set the > explicit flag, and [I haven't seen it] but I bet the EULA is similar to > iBooks Author, and that you cannot use the tool to publish anywhere else. Yet > I don't recall any music publisher complaining that by using this tool means > they must give up any rights to their original content. Yesterday, I sent an email about Apple's new iBooks Authoring tool etc. to a friend who's had books published by an established publisher, but with her last book, self-published. She sent back the following link saying this is very alarming if this is true - her impression is if you use iBooks Author, Apple "basically owns it". http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360?tag=nl.e539 from ZDNET: I read EULAs so you don’t have to. I’ve spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn’t allow.I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple’s EULA for its new ebook authoring program. " "Summary: Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program. ======== I'd like to reply to her with the simple facts. 1) Do you still "own" the copyrights to your work if you publish to iBookstore? ( or is it that Apple owns the copyrights to the book in THAT format?) 2) If you publish to iBookstore via the iBooks format, can you ALSO export to PDF or Text or use your same SOURCE material to publish to another format and sell elsewhere? (just as we can if we sell an app in the App Store and the same app via eSellerate or other...)
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