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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 25 May 2009 | |
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The latest example of the second kind is Eucalyptus, an e-book reader. Eucalyptus downloads and formats books from the Project Gutenberg collection, which mainly consists of out-of-copyright titles but also includes some in-copyright items with the permission of the rightsholder. And in accordance with the Project Gutenberg licence, Eucalyptus's developer pays 20 percent of the gross profits to the project, so let's not hear anything about charging for other people's work - the fee is for the software, not the content. But back to the rejection-approval flip-flop. What happened was that whichever Apple employee was given the job of vetting Eucalyptus, he or she noticed that one of the books available for download was the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - and promptly rejected it. What happened next? Please read on. |
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