Comments on: You Are Not My Mom http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/you-are-not-my-mom/ Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Paranormal, Young Adult, Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Mon, 28 May 2012 06:19:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: XandraG http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202198 XandraG Sun, 24 May 2009 23:08:06 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/22/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202198 This is why ereaders should steer clear of incest with content providers. This is why ereaders should steer clear of incest with content providers.

]]> By: DS http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202067 DS Fri, 22 May 2009 21:45:58 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/22/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202067 This isn't the first instance of this I have heard about. <blockquote>An e-book submitted to Apple's App Store has been approved after the author removed language that apparently offended Apple. CNET's David Carnoy wrote a book called Knife Music last year, and attempted to submit it to the App Store as an e-book. Apple rejected his application for containing "objectionable content," which appeared to be a couple of uses of that four-letter word that starts with F.</blockquote> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10144025-37.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10144025-37.html</a> This isn’t the first instance of this I have heard about.

An e-book submitted to Apple’s App Store has been approved after the author removed language that apparently offended Apple.

CNET’s David Carnoy wrote a book called Knife Music last year, and attempted to submit it to the App Store as an e-book. Apple rejected his application for containing “objectionable content,” which appeared to be a couple of uses of that four-letter word that starts with F.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10144025-37.html

]]> By: Robin http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202063 Robin Fri, 22 May 2009 20:53:10 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/22/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202063 My first thought was that this is about competition more than morality, and I see that <a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/apples-censorship" rel="nofollow">the EFF</a> may agree with me. My first thought was that this is about competition more than morality, and I see that the EFF may agree with me.

]]> By: Louisa Edwards http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202019 Louisa Edwards Fri, 22 May 2009 15:41:05 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/22/you-are-not-my-mom/#comment-202019 That's such a thin, senseless excuse for why Apple would reject this app, it makes me wonder if there's a deeper reason behind it. Although the developer's communications with them appear fairly straightforward (if nonsensical.) The censorship aspect is bad enough, but the stupidity and almost deliberate refusal to comprehend the nature of the app and its functional similarity to Stanza, eReader, etc, makes me nuts. That’s such a thin, senseless excuse for why Apple would reject this app, it makes me wonder if there’s a deeper reason behind it. Although the developer’s communications with them appear fairly straightforward (if nonsensical.) The censorship aspect is bad enough, but the stupidity and almost deliberate refusal to comprehend the nature of the app and its functional similarity to Stanza, eReader, etc, makes me nuts.

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