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Originally Posted by bhartman36
This scheme means that, for authors that choose Apple's authoring software, there's no choice in format, very little choice in device, and no choice in where to get the books from.
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None of which is hidden from the (potential) authors in advance; you pick your software and make your choice...
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It's quite another to say, "If you use our software, any content you create is partially ours, and you can't sell it anywhere else." That's just ludicrous
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And as I understand it they're not saying that - the content you create is always yours. What Apple are saying is that any iBooks you make and
sell for profit using the free iBooks Author software must be sold through the iBooks store, where Apple wil take their usual 30%.
You can use iBooks Author to make books and give them away, no problem. You can use iBooks Author to make books and export the results as a PDF (albeit without all the bells and whistles interactivity, apparently) no problem.
At the risk of labouring the point, this free software is not called eBook Author, or TextBook Author, or ePub Author; it's called iBooks Author. If you want to make a multi-media-rich ebook for sale outside of the iBooks Store, then this isn't the free software for you - you need to be using something else.