Apple has the conditions in his e-booktool iBooks Author hear rewritten, after fierce criticism came on. According to the company, are the authors actually the owner of the digital books with the software.
In a new version of the eula is no longer reported by the authors of their content exclusively through Apple’s distribution channel to sell, as discovered The Next Web. In the new terms and conditions should be e-bookmakers still sell their books through Apple as they are in the iBooks format, but other formats are exempted. That means that authors who have their books in pdf format, and export this via other channels to sell. Furthermore, it remains possible to free books to distribute through managed channels, even if the e-book in Apple’s own iBooks format is offered.
Apple got a lot of criticism on the terms and conditions of iBooks Author, the tool for creating ebooks, which the company recently released. In the old terms were the authors limited to the sales of digital books through Apple’s own channels, in which the company has the right retained to content to refuse. In the old conditions, it seemed that the writers, but Apple is the owner of the content. According to the company, this was not the intention, and the terms are rewritten.
The tool to e-books to was recently announced, and is part of Apple’s initiative to make textbooks available in digital form. With the software, it is possible to make interactive e-books, which then can be sold through Apple’s iBooks 2 app.