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Old 02-20-2017, 12:52 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Heh. So I went looking at their Guidelines:

https://www.apple.com/itunes/marketi...uidelines.html

and here it is:



And I swear I read articles of them actually pulling books down for using the term... but after a quick search I can't find the articles. Am I going insane? Maybe I was confusing it with their draconian crackdowns at the mere mention of other retailers.

Side Note: And back to the Fixed Layout stuff... I ran across this article by AlPe, "(Current) Fixed Layout eBooks Considered Harmful":

http://www.albertopettarin.it/blog/2...d-harmful.html
Yes, the term iBooks refers to the app not to the books themselves. So far as Apple is concerned the books are ePub 2 or ePub 3 compliant and don't have a special mnemonic for them. They are preserving their copyright and trademarked name.

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