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Originally Posted by tompe
The EULA says that you cannot sell the content in other places than iStore (or whatever it is called). I does not say that you cannot sell the formatted output from the program.
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Microsoft never wrote in it's EULA "you can't use Microsoft Access to enhance the desirability of the Mac OS X operating system", but then it didn't HAVE to. It only works on Windows. If you use Microsoft Access, you have to pay Microsoft for the software, and you can only use it in ways that enhance the Microsoft windows platform.
Adobe Flash is free. And cross platform. How nice. Except that drove folks to HAVE to pay Adobe for the software to create flash applications. Years and years later a few anemic efforts at creating non-Adobe flash authoring tools appeared...but not helped along at all by Adobe. Adobe did it's best to ensure that the only way you can create Flash applications was with Adobe's tools.
Apple's EULA is clearly something that argues against using their product. Time will tell if the power and ease of creating richly interactive textbooks via the iBooks Author will turn out to be more compelling than the exclusivity of it's purpose.
All the eInk devices are moot...none of them will display richly interactive textbooks. Given that Apple is the only tablet with viable marketshare at this point for textbook sized uses....I think lots of authors will conclude that being exclusively Apple at this point isn't much to loose.
Lee