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Nice little story about an Apple store without electricity.
You retain complete rights of the content. Only restriction is to sell the .ibook file through the iBookstore and if you distribute it somewhere else it has to be free. Duh.
Best take I’ve read on all this iBA debacle.
David from 37signals:
No other company has inspired me more when it comes to marketing, design, focus, and even capitalism than Apple. Make the best damn product out there, charge a profitable price, and win the world.
I think iBooks Author is a great tool, but it seems that a lot of people are disappointed with the news about it, mainly because you can’t distribute the output (unless it’s free) outside the iBookstore and because it can’t output ePub format (it uses a proprietary iBook format instead). As Jason Snell points out:
Clearly the company’s first priority was to build a tool so that interactive iPad books, specifically textbooks, could be built as easily as possible. That’s what iBooks Author is for today. Any other uses are purely coincidental.
And lets not to forget that it’s a FREE tool. Even Microsoft Office Home and Student, which is not free, disallows any commercial or non-profit use.
If it doesn’t fit your needs, don’t use it, but quit complaining about it.
Great read.
Really nice site, really Apple-ish. Would love to be an owner of one of those in the future.
Spot on. MG brought up the same point I made about Galaxy Nexus being more expensive than the iPhone.
3 factors:
It’s really annoying when people tell me I go to sleep to late or don’t wake up early enough.
Joshua is mixing feelings here, because he fails to see that the argument of the Mercedes is not about “class”, it’s just about “quality”. Isn’t he aware that the Galaxy Nexus is more expensive than the iPhone?
All Android phones and iPhones are pretty much in the same price range because of monthly fees.
So I would say he’s feelings are that he feels a “low-class” because that’s how Android feels, cheap. Turns out it’s quite expensive, sometimes more expensive than an iPhone.
The day Android phones sell contract free, pay-to-go, and in the same price range as an iPod Touch (maybe a bit more expensive because of the phone capabilities), then I’ll understand Joshua’s “horseshit”.
