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Unless there's a clause in the contract that says that whether or not Apple accepts the book, the creator can't sell it anywhere else in any form, I don't see what the hubbub is all about.
All Apple has done is offer writers a free software package to write the books on, in exchange for a promise not to sell the formatted output in a competitor's store.
Short of outright selling the software, what else could they have done and still be in the business of making money?
I'm a bit more sympathetic to the complaints about Apple not really using the standard flavor of epub inside their DRM. I wonder if that has anything to do with the apparent inability of the hackers to crack the DRM?
As for Apple's moving into etextbooks, I think it's going to cost the schools more than they think. Unless Apple comes up with an inexpensive low end dedicated unbreakable EBR, I'd stay away from buying into the Apple iBook ecology.
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