EULA

Fair’s fair. If we get upset over something Apple’s done, we should also mention when they fix it. So, remember the kerfuffle over Apple apparently claiming rights in the user agreement over commercial sale of any e-book created in iBooks Author? Well, Ars Technica reports that Apple has just released a patch to the app, [...]

Apple didn’t mention this at the Guggenheim yesterday, but post-event the complaints are spreading across the Internet: According to the iBooks Author EULA, anyone who uses iBooks Author to create an e-book can only sell that book in the iBookstore. “It’s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can’t freely sell it to Getty,” writes Mac developer Dan Wineman. Apple says that e-books created in iBooks Author must be sold exclusively through the iBookstore.