So I found this floating by on twitter the other day.
It’s a nice, sane view and a careful reading of what the Apple iBooks Author EULA actually means. And -wait for it- it doesn’t mean what people are complaining about it meaning.
Apple doesn’t own your content, they retain exclusive rights to publish the outputted file. That’s it.
The difference is crucial. Nothing stops you from publishing that same content via other means in other file formats. So by all means, use iBooks Author to build a book for iPads, then turn around a push out roughly the same content via ePub and PDF and whatever other format you like. And sell those elsewhere, if that’s your thing.
Maybe people need to take a deep breath?
Have a cup of tea?
Otherwise calm down?