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To be clear- the app rejected here was originally made available on Cydia, and is mainly used for putting your own content onto the device. In other words, the
by colinplamondon 17y ago
To be clear- the app rejected here was originally made available on Cydia, and is mainly used for putting your own content onto the device. In other words, the selling point is putting torrents of books onto the device, just like the main selling point of the iPod is storing 32gb of pirated music.
This still scares me, but I think it's overstating things to say that all ebooks are banned. "This category of application" could be taken to mean multiple things given the context- applications formerly available via Cydia and applications that allow you to upload your own book content are both plausible alternatives.
Once we submit Free Audiobooks in a couple weeks I'll have a more definitive data point for everyone :)
- jamie_ca 17y ago> applications that allow you to upload your own book content are both plausible alternatives. I've been doing that with Stanza since day 1. The desktop version of Stanza "shares" any open books with the iTouch, and Calibre will share all your imported books at once. And I've written a cheapo webapp to generate an atom feed I can subscribe to as a regular catalog.
- gojomo 17y agoRe: 'Free Audiobooks' I was about to set my mother up with one of the earlier librivox audiobooks apps when they suddenly changed to be streaming-only. Will your planned app cache a whole book at a time? If so, I've got two customers waiting...
- colinplamondon 17y agoAbsolutely! By default we'll download two chapters ahead, but there will be a nice big 'Download Entire Audiobook' button available. So, you'll always have three chapters available in full, and you can hit Download All to get the whole thing available offline. No streaming available- I think it just complicates the interface and is totally unnecessary. Downloading will also be done from CloudFront, so they'll be incredibly quick.