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I have heard recently people getting all upset over Exodus International getting an app approved to be made available in the Apple app store. I know I should have said something back when the whole Manhattan Declaration was a big deal but I thought cooler heads would prevail.
Listen folks like it or not Westboro Baptist Church won their Supreme Court case on the same grounds that Manhattan Declaration should have been allowed in the Apple app store and Exodus International should be allowed in the app store and idiots like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Fox News should be allowed in the Apple app store. Because everybody should get their chance to state their case and have their say no matter how idiotic and morally bankrupt. Plus can you think of a more convenient way to track the idiots than through their very own app?
I don’t want Apple to play content censor or moral compass or even judge OK? Is that so hard to understand?
I want to see Playboy next to a Penthouse app and maybe even an app with naked furry men brought to you daily in the app store too. I want everyone to have a nice tidy spot at the table and may the best words and sexiest pictures win.
The only thing I want Apple to guard against is crap apps and malware meant to rip you off.
Hell, at this point I hope Samhain Publishing and Loose Id are both dumping some money into developing their own Apple and Android apps. Why not?
The next step for forward thinking ePublishers is to get rid of the middleman and to sell directly to the public and what a better way to do that than selling eBooks through your own branded eBook Reader and point of direct sales on an Apple or Android App.
Sure you have to kick pennies back to the Apple front desk or to Google eventually just like you have to do the same with Amazon right now but at least you are front and center and free of the Kindle crap and in one of the biggest market changes ever with the whole year Apple took over the tablet market deal firmly underway. Aint no Kindle or any other also ran gonna beat the sales numbers of the iPad/iPad2 no way no how.
That’s just my opinion on the whole shebang both good and bad.
Tags: eBook Commentary, iPad
Tina wrote,
I can tell you from experience in graphic novels: The ap store will not approve any form of adult content if it’s homoerotic. I’ve seen some hetero stuff pass only to be eventually removed when a homoerotic publisher or gay creator challenges why their content was not allowed, and the hetero content was.
The content can be reinstated, so long as its censored. I was asked to censor a total of four scenes in three books– I said no. Mainly because sales in the iBookstore were dismal for my fiction, compared to sales on other eReading platforms. As for the “ap store” I do know one publisher did develop aps for her ‘yaoi titles’ and still has not been able to get them approved.
She’s had to rely on KINDLE to access iPhones and iPads.
Perhaps the moral threshold is lower for homoerotic fiction?
Link | March 20th, 2011 at 6:28 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Of course words can be ultra graphic and no one cares but the minute you give them pictures well now that’s a different story all together…
If they did all that work to get a graphic novel app running in IOS then take it and sell it in the Cydia App Store. That’s an App Store specifically for jail broken Apple devices. The underground hacker and cracker crowd is where all the hip cool yaoi reading crazy kids are anyway. Know your audience damn it and know where they hang out at.
http://cydia.saurik.com/store/
Link | March 20th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Tina wrote,
LOL “Know your audience damn it and know where they hang out at.” I do, and yaoi-fen aren’t shopping there. The night be reading scanslations there, but they’re not buying new stuff. ^_-
But I have passed the link to the publisher in case she wants to give it a shot – thanks.
Link | March 20th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
veinglory wrote,
Exactly, Apple does drop on nudes like a tone of digital bricks. They even refused the Stern app until they took out the titty girl. So it isn’t exactly an equal opportunity platform.
Link | March 21st, 2011 at 1:16 pm