{"id":1164,"date":"2009-02-27T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:17","slug":"taking-another-bite-out-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/taking-another-bite-out-of-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking another bite out of Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <strong><em>finally<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-forbidden-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my issue with Apple<\/a>\u2019s getting some play, which is to say, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/futureoftheinternet.org\/censoring-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p><strong>Author Moriah Jovan had a book rejected last month on that basis (although the rejection didn\u2019t mention the book\u2019s more creative obscenities).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me be clear about one thing. My <strong><em>other<\/em><\/strong> obscenities are no more or less creative than the average steamyhawt romance novel. In my opinion. However, if the steamier novels could make the cut because of the absence of the F-bomb, then yet another level of hypocrisy will have been reached. (I\u2019d be interested to know what, if any, romance novels get converted to apps and put in the store.)<\/p>\n<p>The article talks about the difference between rejected apps that are NOT e-books because e-books do have an alternative method of distribution to iPhone. <strike>(Ahem, my book is available through the Smashwords\/Stanza catalog.)<\/strike> Anyhoo, I\u2019m hearing that there is absolutely NO organization to the iApp store, so maybe it doesn\u2019t matter anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Except, you know, my cover Bewbies are totally eye-catching, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So finally my issue with Apple\u2019s getting some play, which is to say, over at The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It blog. Author Moriah Jovan had a book rejected last month on that basis (although the rejection didn\u2019t mention the book\u2019s more creative obscenities). Let me be clear about one thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[545,529,544,222,87,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-book-production","category-bookselling","category-ebooks","category-money","category-the-proviso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15113,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/15113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}