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iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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One and a half years ago I did the page layout for a book being produced by a team-specific sports blog. They chose to publish the book using CreateSpace, which is owned by Amazon. It was my responsibility to make certain we were in compliance with the submission requirements. I read through them and took notes of all the relevant parts. When we submitted the book for review, it was rejected because we had quoted som…

It could be Apple, Amazon, a public library, a restaurant. [...] Personally, I'd like all of these organizations to be upfront with their policies, but they usually don't take this approach.

Librarians do make more of an effort to be conscientious and transparent. There is considerable emphasis on ethics and the importance of an unrestricted public discourse in library-science degrees, and there is a general ethos that these things matter and should be considered carefully. The American Library Association is also quite active in trying to make sure that's carried out in practice, organizing public discussions of library-related ethics and decision-making, publishing best practices, and raising a ruckus or bringing lawsuits if necessary.

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon.

We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or support the use of Amazon. Clearly Apple has no problem with those.

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon.

We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or support the use of Amazon. Clearly Apple has no problem with those.

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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For a long time people would say, "I wish Google had Apple's design sense." I long for the day when most start saying, "I wish Apple had Google's self-confidence."

Google could do with a little less self-confidence.

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scroll down to "Previous Posts in this Discussion" and click the links. She goes through the whole thing, including the actual email from Apple.

Don't see any emails about the content block that she is referring to this post. I see emails about previous issues of her having links to Amazon in her ebooks. I am very curious about this, because I doubt just saying the word "Amazon" can really be an instant rejection -- and a quick search of the iBook store shows tons of books about Amazon itself, things like "How to Self Publish on the Amazon Kindle" et al.

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Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What, are you kidding or just not paying attention? This has been going on since before the iBookstore, when books had to be wrapped in apps.

Yes, I have been paying attention. Trading is all about timing.

I know this is hn and such, but after reading your comments I only have one thing to say. "lol"

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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post #73

Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon. We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or support the use of Amazon. Clearly Apple has no problem with those.

Are those books from major publishers? She's going the self-pub route so Apple may not be willing to play games with multi-national publishing companies but will screw over indies.

If not, I don't know, but having followed her news letter I would be more than a little surprised if she were fudging things here, it gives her no real benefit.

Re: iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

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post #73

Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon. We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or support the use of Amazon. Clearly Apple has no problem with those.

If I've learned anything from the scores of Apple-rejected-my-app blog posts, it's that consistent application of policy isn't Apple's strong point.
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