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Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-in-our-store dept.

martiniturbide writes "Author Holly Lisle tried to publish her guide How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story's Market at Apple's iBooks store. She says it was rejected first by Apple because it had 'live links' to Amazon. After she removed the links, it was rejected again because according to her: 'The problem is the CONTENT. You can't mention Amazon in your lesson.'"

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  1. Which came first the chicken or the egg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Which came first the Apple Fanboy with blinders to any wrong that Apple does, or Apple computers censorship?

    Apple does stuff like say,"Flash is bad for the industry" and people start believing that propaganda even though Flash is really good for what it does: Cross platform, virus resistant(better than running an .exe on your desktop), and easy to code aps.

    Is it time to say,"Whoa now Apple, you've just become as evil as mid 90s Microsoft?"

  2. This is going to get worse.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Digital content is BAD.

    Steam very bad on pricing, anti competitive, book stores, bad, tracking your reading and so on and can pull any book any time they want (been done on Amazon), music, same thing.

    Second hand market, will die, libraries will die. I can go on and on about the negative effects digital stores and content will have on society.

    NEVER GIVE UP PHYSICAL BOOKS/CONTENT.

    If you do, you lost the fight.

    I prefer to think of digital content a "CONVENIENCE" format for my PHYSICAL item I already have. NOT A REPLACEMENT for it.

  3. Re:The first rule of controlling a market... by Karlt1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So does that mean that the Disney Store should be forced to sell Debbie Does Dallas if they sell books by other authors?

  4. Re:Debbie does her stretch... maybe? by Smauler · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it's not a stretch. GGP was asking for public companies to be forced to carry everything - GP was making a simple point, relatively succinctly :

    Forcing public companies to not censor to leads to stupid consequences, like companies aimed exclusively at kids carrying porn.

  5. Re:The first rule of controlling a market... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Troll

    In other words, you got called out for being foolish, and are now trying to backtrack and blame it on some ideological position that resulted in you failing reading comprehension.

    Precisely. And despite the howls of duplicative protests, I'll get away with it.

    --
    You are welcome on my lawn.