On 25/01/2012, at 9:24 AM, steve harley wrote: > for most books, the real work is in authorship; the only thing you can't sell > on your own is the widgety stuff, and you can make those other ways if you > want to; so write the book, wrap it in iBooks format, and if Apple declines > to sell it, you haven't given up the copyright on the text, so package it > some other way (even the widgety stuff can be done without Apple's tools, but > perhaps it will be more work)
And that is the crux of it. This isn't a multi-platform tool, it is just for iBooks. If you are wanting to sell an e-book nowadays you have to reformat for multiple file formats and then navigate the submission processes for the various platforms which is not as straight forward as you might think. Basically, almost all of your work should be done in your favourite text editor (Word or whatever) and then tweaked separately for each different platform. The i-books app sounds like it will allow you to go a lot further than you could on a Kindle for instance. This is Apple's way of fighting back against Amazon's desire for an e-book monopoly, by allowing the author to create works that look much better than those on Amazon, so it is no surprise that they don't allow you to sell the end product outside the i-books store. It isn't a copyright grab, just a restriction on how you use the output of a free product. There is nothing stopping you using some other tool to create the same product and selling it elsewhere. Paul -- 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.
