Comments on: Is Apple Big Bro now? CNET editor’s detective thriller banned from the App Store http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/22/is-apple-big-bro-now-cnet-editors-book-banished-from-the-app-store/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rich Adin http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/22/is-apple-big-bro-now-cnet-editors-book-banished-from-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-989544 Rich Adin Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:01:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/22/is-apple-big-bro-now-cnet-editors-book-banished-from-the-app-store/#comment-989544 I think, David, you are taking the wrong approach: You should view this positively and as the first in what will be a series of revivals of the decency leagues that proliferated in the 1920s and 1930s. With their revival, authors will be able to once again make a fair wage for their work because "banned in Boston" will spike sales everywhere else. And who better than Steve Jobs and Apple to begin the revival? Anything Jobs and Apple do makes news and spreads like wildfire. (All with tongue in cheek.) I think, David, you are taking the wrong approach: You should view this positively and as the first in what will be a series of revivals of the decency leagues that proliferated in the 1920s and 1930s. With their revival, authors will be able to once again make a fair wage for their work because “banned in Boston” will spike sales everywhere else. And who better than Steve Jobs and Apple to begin the revival? Anything Jobs and Apple do makes news and spreads like wildfire. (All with tongue in cheek.)

]]> By: Moriah Jovan http://www.teleread.org/2008/12/22/is-apple-big-bro-now-cnet-editors-book-banished-from-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-989530 Moriah Jovan Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:39:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/22/is-apple-big-bro-now-cnet-editors-book-banished-from-the-app-store/#comment-989530 <blockquote>Yes, I can understand some kind of access controls if a book is ultra-explicit in sexual ways or others, but mightn’t Apple be overdoing it with its gripe over Carnoy’s language?</blockquote> While I do think it's disingenuous to write a specific post to say that SOME books maybe might oughtta be banned from the iApp store, but not THIS BOOK because it's not <i>dirty like that</i>, I do agree with the larger principle. Why? <a href="http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/oh-tipper-where-are-you" rel="nofollow">THE PROVISO's iApp store application rejected.</a> Mine DOES have sexual content, but that's not why it was banned from the iApp store. It was because of the F-bomb. Honestly, though, I don't know why this is a surprise. Jobs has always been of the opinion that people don't read, so instead of taking a market share in e-books like he did in music, he's just going to fluff the whole thing off. He hasn't changed in that position, up to and including all the workarounds to get e-books on iPhone/iTouch. Solution: Stanza and EPUB.

Yes, I can understand some kind of access controls if a book is ultra-explicit in sexual ways or others, but mightn’t Apple be overdoing it with its gripe over Carnoy’s language?

While I do think it’s disingenuous to write a specific post to say that SOME books maybe might oughtta be banned from the iApp store, but not THIS BOOK because it’s not dirty like that, I do agree with the larger principle. Why?

THE PROVISO’s iApp store application rejected.

Mine DOES have sexual content, but that’s not why it was banned from the iApp store. It was because of the F-bomb.

Honestly, though, I don’t know why this is a surprise. Jobs has always been of the opinion that people don’t read, so instead of taking a market share in e-books like he did in music, he’s just going to fluff the whole thing off. He hasn’t changed in that position, up to and including all the workarounds to get e-books on iPhone/iTouch.

Solution: Stanza and EPUB.

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