{"id":189,"date":"2008-12-05T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:46:58","slug":"oh-tipper-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/oh-tipper-where-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Tipper, where are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Warning<\/p>\n

So our application to get The Proviso<\/em><\/a> into the iTunes store was denied. Seems it\u2019s a tad too racy for the terms of service. Who\u2019d\u2019a thunk it, right?<\/p>\n

Roger from eBook App Maker<\/a> tells us that Apple is in the process of applying a ratings system to their games and he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019ll be too long until they start in with the ebook apps. So instead of sanitizing the book, we\u2019ve decided to wait until Apple has a rating system.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/p>\n

Today Richard Curtis (I love this guy, really) discusses Steve Jobs\u2019s dismissal of ebooks<\/a> as a viable revenue source a la iTunes with the comment, “People don\u2019t read anymore.” I\u2019ve discussed this before and it makes my head explode every time I think about it.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, a number of determined and enterprising programmers took it upon themselves to spec – or hack – a reader application for the iPhone. And even more fortunately, Jobs did not discourage them. One hopes he realized he had spoken recklessly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is another way to read The Proviso<\/em> on the iPhone\/iTouch and that\u2019s using Stanza and our EPUB format (included in the zip file).<\/p>\n

\"The
As seen on the iPhone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But he also talks about Fictionwise:<\/p>\n

Aside from the satisfaction of seeing Steve Jobs proven wrong, it\u2019s also inspiring to see Fictionwise taking this initiative. We at E-Reads are big fans of Fictionwise<\/a>. It is our principal e-book distributor and a major reason why this industry is beginning to thrive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I like Fictionwise, I do. But we can\u2019t get on Fictionwise, either, because they require a publisher have 25 different titles by 5 different authors and although B10 Mediaworx does have titles in the works by people other than I, it\u2019ll be a long time before we see that goal realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So our application to get The Proviso into the iTunes store was denied. Seems it\u2019s a tad too racy for the terms of service. Who\u2019d\u2019a thunk it, right? Roger from eBook App Maker tells us that Apple is in the process of applying a ratings system to their games and he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019ll be […]<\/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":[545,222,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-ebooks","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17208,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/17208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}