Comments on: Apple wants you to pirate manga http://www.durf.org/2010/05/25/apple-wants-you-to-pirate-manga/ Live from the world's largest Japantown Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Durf http://www.durf.org/2010/05/25/apple-wants-you-to-pirate-manga/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Durf Tue, 25 May 2010 09:14:30 +0000 http://www.durf.org/?p=513#comment-235 Yeah, I sort of dashed this entry off and should probably have spent more effort getting that part clearer. We're not talking about iBooks titles getting rejected for R-rated content, but titles released as apps, which is of course the stuff Apple has been cracking down on recently. It'll be interesting to see whether the gates stay wide open for publishers to get all their goods up on the iBooks store once it shows up here. Yeah, I sort of dashed this entry off and should probably have spent more effort getting that part clearer. We’re not talking about iBooks titles getting rejected for R-rated content, but titles released as apps, which is of course the stuff Apple has been cracking down on recently. It’ll be interesting to see whether the gates stay wide open for publishers to get all their goods up on the iBooks store once it shows up here.

]]> By: Adam Rice http://www.durf.org/2010/05/25/apple-wants-you-to-pirate-manga/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Adam Rice Tue, 25 May 2010 04:19:58 +0000 http://www.durf.org/?p=513#comment-234 There are a few weird things going on here. Certainly Apple exerting editorial control over the content of apps that are basically just readers for canned content is very weird and troubling. The fact that Apple is letting apps through that can be used as readers for copyright-infringing scans doesn't bother me, although the contrast in Apple's censoriousness here and permissiveness there is also weird. There's also using self-contained apps as the distribution mechanism for content, rather than having an app reader that accesses a bookstore, as with iBooks or the Kindle app. Again: weird. I don't know if Apple is exerting editorial control over what gets sold on the iBooks store. Amazon, for its part, seems content not to exert editorial control, simply to jack authors around in its power plays with publishers. There are a few weird things going on here. Certainly Apple exerting editorial control over the content of apps that are basically just readers for canned content is very weird and troubling. The fact that Apple is letting apps through that can be used as readers for copyright-infringing scans doesn’t bother me, although the contrast in Apple’s censoriousness here and permissiveness there is also weird.

There’s also using self-contained apps as the distribution mechanism for content, rather than having an app reader that accesses a bookstore, as with iBooks or the Kindle app. Again: weird. I don’t know if Apple is exerting editorial control over what gets sold on the iBooks store. Amazon, for its part, seems content not to exert editorial control, simply to jack authors around in its power plays with publishers.

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