If you create a Work that has no specific components supplied by iBook Author ... none of the iBook Author widgets or features, DRM, etc ... then it is indistinguishable from content created by any other tools. So if you create an iBook file and then render it to Plain Text, the EULA's restrictions on what you can do with it are no longer applicable because there's no way to prove that iBook Author created it, nor is there any value in it that any other plain text editor could not have created.
Dress it up with Word and sell it to whomever will buy it. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sorry, I was not very careful (as somebody else has pointed out) > in using the language. I used "distribute" instead of "sell". > > Mea culpa! > I realized it after I sent the message, and decided not to send > the followup: I am in the middle of 2 deadlines and the > emergency computer maintenance work. > > That may have contributed to a confusion. > I believe Larry is talking about selling, while the part of the EULA > you, Godfrey, quote is applied to free distribution. > > > Igor > > > Mon Jan 23 14:04:26 EST 2012 > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On 1/23/2012 9:26 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> It's a business decision akin to signing a book contract with a >>> publisher on an exclusive basis, with the added bonus in that if you >>> don't want to sell your work, you can distribute it freely without >>> Apple's involvement at all, and you can transform it into a more >>> industry generic form and still sell it any other way you wish. >> >> >> I read it that even if you transform it into an industry generic form, >> if >> you used iBook author, you still have to sell it through the >> iBookstore. > > Your notion seems to be in direct contradiction to this portion of the > EULA: > > "B. Distribution of your Work. As a condition of this License and > provided you are in compliance with its terms, your Work may be > distributed as follows: > (i) if your Work is provided for free (at no charge), you may > distribute the Work by any available means; ..." > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
