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iBooks To Be Sold Through iBookstore
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An Apple spokesperson said that iBook files can be distributed and read on other platforms, including the Android Kindle Fire, provided it is free.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012:
According to a tough End User License Agreement, any iBook created by the iBooks Author software can only be sold through the iBookstore. This has been done to help Apple take claim 30 per cent share.
However, an unusually chatty Apple UK spokesman revealed that the current legal wording allows iBook files to be distributed and read on other platforms, including the Android Kindle Fire. But, the catch is that the iBook in this case would have to be free. This would enable greater reach for an iBook author and extra choice for the Kindle reader, leaving no commercial advantage for the author.
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The legal rewrite of the End User Agreement on Friday clarified that authors using the iBooks Author application could export their content as a PDF to send it to other platforms. And, this fresh statement suggests that writers could legally export it to other platforms as an iBook too, thus keeping in the interactive features that make them interesting.
The new information shows that the door is open to such applications in future which is presumed to work on the same model that the iTunes application uses on Windows. The Apple spokesperson pointed out that while free iBooks could 'theoretically, yes' be read on other devices, but that wasn't a current option: iBooks app is exclusive to iOS. The point is that if you use iBooks to create your content then that file should only be sold on the iBookstores.
Shivangi Anand, EFYTIMES News Network
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