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Publisher Wiley's Books Pulled from Apple Stores
getling writes "Looks like Steve Jobs is almost as unhappy about personal details being publicized as he is with Mac secrets. The book publisher Wiley, who is releasing a new unauthorized biography of Jobs has had its entire line of books banned from Apple stores as a result of their unhappiness with the content of the book. Wiley, publisher of the popular Dummies series of books, as well as the Bible series, is quite surprised, due to the fact that they view the book to show Jobs in a largely positive light ..."
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oh NO now all the hoards of people who go to apples stores to buy books won't be able to purchase it with his new $400 toy
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Waaaaaa! Look, if you're gonna be a public figure, you'd better be prepared to take the good with the bad. The dickhead shouldn't be making decisions that will hurt his shareholders just because the world will find out he wet his bed at until he was 15. Don't like it? Get out of the public eye, and quit giving keynotes at all those expos with that swarmy smile and stupid turtlenecks.
Maybe the famous "1984" commercial should now only be played in reverse.
Maybe he didn't like that they didn't say enough bad stuff about Microsoft stealing all of Apple's good ideas. That is, of course, what Microsoft did, since Microsoft is evil, vile, and wicked; since Microsoft sucks; and since Microsoft represents everything that mankind should avoid at all costs. Microsoft is bad, Apple is good, and Steve Jobs is right to be upset.
man, nice rant that has nothing to do with the post you replied to.
well done.
"E.g., "freedom of press" does _not_ mean you can go to NYT and have them publish whatever you want published in their newspaper. As they say, "freedom of press" only applies to whoever owns the press."
wow, totaly missed the point of that quote. bravo.
"E.g., if Apple doesn't want to sell another company's books, "free press" and "democracy" have exactly _nothing_ to do with it."
once again missing the post, or did you even read the post you are replying to? he said it was bad for the company, which it is. Also stating it cost the people who own/run the mac store franchise money.
If I were still a share holder, I would be very upset.
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