Hum, maybe I should have looked at who I was replying to.

Still, I stand by what I said about Apple users because a lot of them do view attacks on Apple as being personal and biased. That isn't always the case. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft either, because they have used similar (albeit, in my opinion, not as extreme) business tactics. Ditto for Amazon, and other such companies.

That being said, the answer isn't as simple as: don't use it if you don't like it. Sometimes people don't have a choice. This may end up being one of those cases. If your school decides that they are going to be using Apple's platform, you're going to be using Apple's platform. If iBooks Author is how an author targets Apple's platform with full media support and (assuming) Apple is the dominant platform, then you use iBooks Author. Even if Apple makes a payware version of iBooks that doesn't have the nefarious licensing clause, how many authors are going to import their work into another system to create a book for a competing vendor? To be sure, some will. Yet given the technical aptitude of many authors, many won't be able to.