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Apple announce i-textbooks for schools
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alanwarwic
20-01-2012
Yes it is.
Publishers are mainly old farts so they have played DRM safe and ignored those formats.
Gormond
20-01-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Yes it is.
Publishers are mainly old farts so they have played DRM safe and ignored those formats.”

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I looked before I paid hundred of pounds for physical books, none of my course books for EEE are available as ebooks.
alanwarwic
22-01-2012
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/20/apple_ibooks/

"If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software ... you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple."

The restriction is displayed when users run iBook Author, but only at the end of the e-book design process. At which point one might be prompted to go back and read the EULA - which wasn't displayed during the installation of the program:

There is no reason why Apple would not expand it onto other platforms such as a Windows tablet.
alanwarwic
22-01-2012
This author might just need to use a pseudo-name when it comes to submitting anything for approval.
Methinks he has made his mind up anyway after sifting through the "mind-bogglingly greedy and evil " small print

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apple...agreement/4360
http://venomousporridge.com/post/161...-eula-audacity

Am sure some of his arguments could also apply elsewhere though.
alanwarwic
23-01-2012
My thoughts on EPUB 3 were in fact quite close.

"I tried creating a book using a formatted Word document and iBooks Author. When I changed the .ibooks extension to .epub, the book opened properly in the free, open-source Calibre e-book management program. The cover and table of contents were a mess, but the content itself looked just fine. So there’s no question that EPUB is still at the core of iBooks Author."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-a...tal-books/4378

I doubt they will do anything similar to music.
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