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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but I don't see the problem.
This is free software for producing books specifically for the iBooks application. Apple are (very reasonably, to my mind) saying that if you choose to sell the resulting book, you must do so via the iBookstore. If you wish to give it away, you can freely do so. Similarly, if you export your file in another format, such as PDF, you can do whatever you wish with that.
Really, what's all the fuss about?
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The program allows you to export your work as plain text, with all formatting stripped. So you do have the option to take the formatting work you did in iBooks Author, throw it away, and start over. That is a devastating potential limitation for an author/publisher. Outputting as PDF would preserve the formatting, but again the license would appear to prohibit you from selling that work, because it was generated by iBooks Author.
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it's idiotic. It is the same as Parker Pens (Apple) saying that a book written with one of their pens (iBooks) may only be sold in officially approved Parker stores (iStore), and that Parker (Apple) has the right to take the work out of print, or even reject it for release, if they so please.
Or, as a photographer, you would need to sell your wedding shoot through the Adobe store to the happy pair, and that Adobe can decide that you're not allowed to sell that shoot, for whatever reason... all because you used Photoshop to edit it.
Both examples sounds quite ridiculous, don't they? However, it's exactly what happens when you use iBooks to create your work.
There are not many companies I utterly detest, but Apple is one of them, and my hate just grew bigger. I thought that I reached the hate limit for them a long time ago, but I was wrong.