Eucalyptus e-reader OKed for Apple App store, even if it can display the evil Kama Sutra
Macworld reports a change in the fortunes of Eucalyptus, the e-book app that was rejected because it was possible to download the Kama Sutra from Project Gutenberg with it.
An Apple representative phoned Eucalyptus’s developer, James Montgomerie, over the weekend to discuss the matter with him. As a result Eucalyptus has been approved into the app store, without need of the filter Montgomerie had added with his prior resubmission.
I’m certainly glad to see the app has escaped its bureaucratic purgatory, and hope that the negative publicity from this and other ridiculous recent app rejections will cause Apple’s app approvers to grow some common sense. Blogosphere publicity shouldn’t be necessary to reverse a decision that shouldn’t ever have been made in the first place.
All the same, I find myself wondering if pretty page-turning animations for public-domain books are really worth $10. I can read just about anything I want from Project Gutenberg on Bookshelf, which I’ve already bought because it reads so many other things too, or Stanza or eReader, both of which are free. On the other hand, Eucalyptus does read a lot more books than Classics.
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