[Macworld]

Post your comments for Apple updates iBooks Author license, clarifies sales restrictions here

[jrandersoniii]

If you don't like the EULA, don't use the App to create original material. Try getting better terms with a publisher, if they will even take you work.

[tobor68]

apple could do us a favour and sell iBooks Author for $40 and call it even.

[SteveClarkwzv8]

My update was only 36 mb!

[Spock]

Duh! Much ado about nothing. Apple never said they owned the content of the iBooks. The hysteria was created by anti-Apple pundits who did not bother to think it through, as usual.

This 'new EULA' just makes explicit what every normal person already understood from the original EULA.

[pawhite524]

A sad effect of these litigious times that people reacted as they did.
*@ Spock*: I had the same take you did but too many went with my comment above. Kudos to Apple for clarifying for those potential authors their content is their content. Now only the folks who already cast a sinister eye at Apple will remain unhappy...

[flowney]

I think that it is important to note that the requirement to sell exclusively via the iBookstore applies only to works generated by iBooks Author that are also in the *.ibooks format. Right now, the only way that you could violate that provision is to offer iBooks Author-generated *.ibooks files from a web site that buyers would then have to 'side load' into iTunes.app and, from there, to an iPad.

Not covered by this EULA are works in the *.ibooks format that are created in other ways (e.g. hand-coded in a text editor). Apple is not asserting any claim to the *.ibooks file format. This means that anyone is free to develop eReaders that can display iBooks files as iBooks 2 does and develop apps that generate .ibooks files.

Actually, this is a pretty modest requirement when you look at the big picture.