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| Bad Monkey cannot be brought in the Apple iBookstore. |
As most of my regular readers know, I write a monthly column for the Hearthstone Community Church ("The OFM people") which I later collect into 99 cent ebooks. One of the collections (the 2011 articles) is called Bad Monkey.
Now, awhile back Bad Monkey was uploaded to Smashwords, and then it made its way though the distribution network. Including the Apple iBookstore. I know--I searched for it--it was available on Apple. Pity, I did not take a screenshot of this fact...
...because it has been removed from Apple.
We have all heard of the difficulties that erotica writers have with the iBookstore. H***, I have experienced them firsthand (under two of the pennames that I wrote erotica under). Now, I am experiencing the same crop of problems as an esoteric/Wicca/pagan writer.
And I will never know why my ebook was pulled from sale by Apple. One of the hazards with using Smashwords to upload my stuff is that I do not get to see the notices that Apple sends out when they remove stuff, or outright reject it. Why am I using Smashwords? Because I do not have an iDevice (yes, you need an Apple computer to upload to the iBookstore directly).
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| My paranoia says that this is the reason that it was pulled off of the iBookstore. |
Oh well. Bad Monkey: The Collected 2011 Hearthstone Community Church Articles is still available on Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords.
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3 comments:
I have Carl Hiaasen's book on my TBR pile right now! I don't think that's why you got bumped from Apple though. It could be that the subtitle of your book made them think it was too specific to be general interest, as in they thought it was a book only for the members of a specific church community. Is there a feedback form you can use to ask them?
Problem with that theory is that Apple initially allowed it to go up. Now, all of a sudden, they took it down. And the only difference I see is this other book.
There are lots of books with same or similar titles though. Are you sure your ebook file works with Apple products? Sometimes page numbers get all messed up and files won't open. If someone complained that your book wouldn't download properly, maybe they'd remove it for that reason?
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