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iBook Store Features Leave Indie Publishers Behind

Posted by Soulskill on from the paying-for-the-top-shelf dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Apple has introduced some new features to its iBooks store in order to make illustrations and fixed layouts possible — something particularly important for children's books. But at the moment, it seems these features are only available for big publishers, not indies. This is not dissimilar from the controversy that brewed over indie labels' access to iTunes LP."

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  1. Re:who cares about their locked down ecosystem? by gstoddart · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seriously... who'd ever buy stuff like that from Apple?

    You mean, other than the millions of customers they have now and the new ones they get every week?

    Why, practically nobody.

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  2. Re:Chapter 1 by HanzoSpam · · Score: 1, Funny

    Political incorrectness.

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  3. Re:Apple did the same with Itunes. BOYCOTT APPLE. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard it died faster than Jobs' liver "donor".