Hi, Gang:
We have this client, for whom we've done a few books. A few years back, we did a book for him about a "journey" he made with his dog, who became ill, and, of course, passed. It was a sweet book; probably not Pulitzer material, but, hey. Anyway, I got this email from him today:
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Just a quick note to tell you something I found interesting just now. The past two days I've been doing updates to my blogs as I finally have some time between tech writing assignments. In any event, while working on [his website] just now, the site for my book [NAME OF BOOK], I found that the link to the page for the book on the Apple iBookstore was broken, so I went out to that site (and to iTunes) to search on the title, figuring perhaps they make a page change. Uh, no, they didn't do that, they just removed the book from their site, but without any notice whatsoever. Yeah, I know the book hardly sold on that site, but geez, what jerks they are. If I knew what I know today, I would have never spent the time and money to get "accepted" into the iBookstore. What a-holes.
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I mean...really??? They're kidding, right? They take EVERY SORT of imaginable dreck, from Smashwords, not to mention direct uploads, and they remove THIS guy's book? Sure, it wasn't the next Great American Novel. He's not Tom Wolfe. But he's not dreadful, either. (And brothers and sisters, I
know dreadful, trust me.) It's a sweet little story. It's not like some of the self-pubbed garbage we see. It's not rife with horrible grammar, incoherent sentences and the like. It's not one of those books that will get the Amazon Scarlet Letter assigned to it. It's a nice, little self-pubbed book, on a topic that a lot of people like to read about, at least on Amazon.
He's right.
What A$$HOLES they are. It's so typically Apple--they don't even notify him. They don't tell him why; they just DO it, and tough if you don't like it, publisher.
I told him to Google and it and ask around; if they're doing this, it won't be in a vacuum. JERKS. On my client's behalf,
Hitch