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Apple Rejecting All e-Book App Store Submissions?
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But not until the tablet switches to using an OLED panel. Even with LED backlighting, current LCD panels use much more power than the e-ink panels used on the Amazon Kindle.
Wow, this is crap. Apple is getting really outta control with their over control.
did you read the update?
How fool of you to hate apple for no reason!
...which should have been blatantly obvious to anyone who actually read the TUAW article and the developer's original blog post and applied a tiny bit of logical thinking. But I guess that would be a lot harder than just reading the title of the story and becoming outraged.
Its a good thing Apple blocks the public domain books, a hundred publishers could submit the same book for $0,99 while at the same time having it free on some readers, free in Google and Free on Gutenberg.
Apple clearly needs to get into the eBook business, Amazon sells more books on the iPhone than on the Kindle.
Apple clearly needs to get into the eBook business, Amazon sells more books on the iPhone than on the Kindle.
I'd love to read my books on a 10" tablet and if I could buy them on iTunes, it would be better !
and if I could buy them on iTunes, it would be better !
Were in for the biggest revolution in the book-business since 4-color printing.
All the pieces are already out there (e-ink readers are merely a small piece of the puzzle) but we need Apple to bring them all together into one device and one service.
I run a 2e hand bookstore so digital books won't benefit me at all but i'm still exited to be part of it and support the change, my belief is that it will build upon the current bookmarket and not replace it.
All the pieces are already out there (e-ink readers are merely a small piece of the puzzle) but we need Apple to bring them all together into one device and one service.
I run a 2e hand bookstore so digital books won't benefit me at all but i'm still exited to be part of it and support the change, my belief is that it will build upon the current bookmarket and not replace it.
Anyone got an ebook reader that scrolls?
I used to love ereader on the palm, but the ereader app scrolls like stephen hawking over cobbles. Truly unusable.
Page turning is so last century.
I used to love ereader on the palm, but the ereader app scrolls like stephen hawking over cobbles. Truly unusable.
Page turning is so last century.
... and convenient. I like my Kindle app on the iPhone, but a larger form factor in an Apple tablet would be really cool. I wonder if it's possible to shift between an e-ink and "regular" mode on a device like this?
... and convenient. I like my Kindle app on the iPhone, but a larger form factor in an Apple tablet would be really cool. I wonder if it's possible to shift between an e-ink and "regular" mode on a device like this?
Of course not. They're two different technologies. BUT that's an excellent suggestion! Apple should include a simulated E Ink mode, with low contrast, low speed and lower brightness (like the LCD display in iTunes), just to make fun of E Ink.
"For those of you who prefer the Kindle look, we have a low power, low contrast mode only kidding, it's only for showing your friends. We don't recommend it for daily use. You'll go blind. And don't try to play a video "
I can see Phil saying that. (Now that Phil is doing the 'personal email answer to people's questions' thing, I think we're being prepared for Steve not doing presentations anymore.)
If you think I'm knocking E Ink for the sake of it I owned an E Ink phone before iPhone came out and it didn't increase battery life at all. Yes I could read it in full sunlight, but guess what? I can read iPhone's screen in full sunlight. The phones you can't read in full sunlight just have bad screens, that's all. I couldn't read E Ink the dark, though (snicker!)
I read through all of these posts and not one of you has commented on the fact that this ereader app would actually allow you to download ebooks from your computer without an assurance that it was paid for. All of the other ereader apps in the app store do not allow you to do this, they either use a central library of free books like Wattpad, or an online store like Kindle for iPhone.
From the article and the developer's blog it can be easily surmised that this is the reason that it was rejected...it would have been the only ereader app to allow you to add pirated books, plain and simple.
As an example I'd like to mention emulators...there are no emulators on the app store because to use them you would have to download illegal ROMs...this is one of the reasons why I jailbroke my phone...to use SNES4iPhone and Genesis4iPhone...if his app is still available on Cydia I may take a look at it just so I have a ereader with download from the computer functionality, but I would never expect this app to make it into the app store with this functionality intact.
From the article and the developer's blog it can be easily surmised that this is the reason that it was rejected...it would have been the only ereader app to allow you to add pirated books, plain and simple.
As an example I'd like to mention emulators...there are no emulators on the app store because to use them you would have to download illegal ROMs...this is one of the reasons why I jailbroke my phone...to use SNES4iPhone and Genesis4iPhone...if his app is still available on Cydia I may take a look at it just so I have a ereader with download from the computer functionality, but I would never expect this app to make it into the app store with this functionality intact.
Main reason nobody's mentioned it is because it's not true. Stanza (fairly well known & now owned by Amazon) for example, lets you load anything with no means to check copyright.
That is certainly the reason given for rejecting the app. It's just B.S., that's all. Apple doesn't verify copyright for anything Safari shows you
You know I never noticed that functionality in Stanza (I have it on my phone, I just rarely use it). If this is true then perhaps there is another element involved...like his app's participation on Cydia either past or present which precluded it's submission to the app store.
Does anyone have any info on whether his app was available on Cydia at the time he was trying to get approval for the app store? That may have been the real reason Apple rejected his app...participation in a third party app store would certainly keep me on guard if I were Apple.
Guilt by association being Apple's possible reasoning.
no longer an issue...
The app in question i2reader has finally made it to the app store...so this entire story is a non-issue now.
The app in question i2reader has finally made it to the app store...so this entire story is a non-issue now.