Comments on: iBooks Author http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/2012/01/20/ibooks-author/ All things Soulmen: News, infos, dev-talk and tidbits by the makers of finest software products for Mac OS X and iOS Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Flex http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/2012/01/20/ibooks-author/comment-page-1/#comment-41857 Flex Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:39:49 +0000 http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-41857 Yes, it seems like Apple would like people to study up. Marco Arment gives an overview here:
http://www.marco.org/2012/01/28/ibook-iad-pluralization

I hope my mom never asks me to explain it to her.

]]> By: Marcus http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/2012/01/20/ibooks-author/comment-page-1/#comment-41541 Marcus Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:05:06 +0000 http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-41541 My point is this: Nobody outside of Apple and some informed Apple-News readers can differentiate between iBooks, eBooks and ePubs. For most people out there, an “iBook” is synonymous with an “eBook”.

And that’s Apple’s fault.

The EULA are completely ok, I don’t care or oppose, see?

]]> By: Flex http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/2012/01/20/ibooks-author/comment-page-1/#comment-41087 Flex Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:19:19 +0000 http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-41087 I don’t really get the bruhaha, to be honest. iBooks Author is a free tool that lets you sell your book on Apple’s store with no cost for you, and with some free advertising thrown in for good measure.
In doing so, Apple takes the role of the publisher, so why would they allow that book, for which they provided the tool and the platform, to be sold elsewhere?

If you are a professional writer and find a traditional publisher for your books, that publisher can also put it in the iBooks store, as well as other stores.
Everytime Apple does anything, people act like something was taken away from them, when it’s always the opposite.

]]> By: Saidur Mamun Khan http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/2012/01/20/ibooks-author/comment-page-1/#comment-41081 Saidur Mamun Khan Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:29:27 +0000 http://www.the-soulmen.com/blog/?p=1024#comment-41081 Thanks for the post…. What really intrigues me now is what will happen to these iBooks apps when SOPA and PIPA are completely implemented. Makes you wonder, right? I guess the world is really ending on 2012!! … Great post by the way!

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