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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Huge difference, IMHO. An app is software. There is no point to create an iOS app, and then sell it in the Android (or any other) market. It just does not work, it can't run on an Android device. You write an application for one operating system, or for another. It's a choice you can make.
A book however, is just a file format, with some information such as text and pictures inside. It needs another program to be useful, and other programs can be written for other operating systems, to be able to open such a file. Therefore, the book is not inherently tied to an operating sytem, but Apple wants to do that nonetheless.
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The point of iBooks Author is to allow these media-rich books to be produced without having to write custom apps. That is why it exists.
If you want to write a normal book, there is no need to use this tool, just create it in ePub instead.
So for the people it is likely to benefit, they are no more constrained than they were beforehand.
I understand that there are lots of people who wish the tool was intended to do a lot more than that, but it isn't.