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Author Holly Lisle has a series of online writing guides that she
sells. One volume of this, "How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To
Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market" was rejected by Apple's
iBooks store. At first, Apple told Lisle that she wasn't allowed to
have "live links" to Amazon in her books. So she removed the links and
resubmitted the book, and then Apple rejected it again, telling her
that they wouldn't sell her book because it mentioned Amazon, a
competitor of its iBooks store. [Full]
LOL.
I spent my life in sales and marketing. If you were a competitor
I
hated your guts, made war on you, and excluded you from my Christmas
parties. So. I understand; and
it is what Francis Urquhart would do.
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I bought my wife an iPad for Christmas because it CAN download both Kindle and Nook. Seems Apple is being rather stupid about this.
ReplyDelete"it is what Francis Urquhart would do"
ReplyDeleteYou might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
[pushes Rodge off roof]
Best last episode ending ever too.
ReplyDeleteGet an android.
ReplyDeleteLINUX open source OS, and no content restrictions.
Soooo … a rejected author writes a bitter rant demonizing the hyper-successful publisher that rejected her. Boing Boing swallows the story hook, line, and sinker, because failure is PostModernism success.
ReplyDeleteLet's talk about me. Within hours of Apple releasing Mountain Lion, I had it installing itself while I boiled a pot of pudding. The upgrade made no noticeable difference and the pudding was delicious. That's a perfect ending to this story, because success is still success.