Comments on: Continued “Censorship” on the iPad – Gay books a no-go http://comics212.net/2010/06/14/continued-censorship-on-the-ipad-gay-books-a-no-go/ Never Safe For Work Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tyler page http://comics212.net/2010/06/14/continued-censorship-on-the-ipad-gay-books-a-no-go/comment-page-1/#comment-115913 tyler page Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:43:57 +0000 http://comics212.net/?p=5636#comment-115913 As an initial test I signed up for the iBookstore and got Nothing Better Vol 2 uploaded and approved. I've since pulled it temporarily to fix some formatting issues but the experience of signing up, uploading it and getting it approved was pretty smooth. Once you get the book file uploaded it is listed as 'pending' for a few days. I'm not sure if a human actually looks at it or not but my guess is that any "controversial" material is a matter of magnitude or obvious-nous. NB Vol2 features some boobs, sex and an implied (silhouetted) gay blow job. At a glance that might not all be noticeable, but if that sort of material were more frequent throughout the book maybe it wouldn't have passed? I'm not really sure what Apple is afraid of. the optimist in me wants to think that they're just being careful as they wade into the world of print content. the easiest way to make everyone happy would maybe be to note such material as for 'mature readers' only. but so far my experience with the process was pretty good. As an initial test I signed up for the iBookstore and got Nothing Better Vol 2 uploaded and approved. I’ve since pulled it temporarily to fix some formatting issues but the experience of signing up, uploading it and getting it approved was pretty smooth.

Once you get the book file uploaded it is listed as ‘pending’ for a few days. I’m not sure if a human actually looks at it or not but my guess is that any “controversial” material is a matter of magnitude or obvious-nous. NB Vol2 features some boobs, sex and an implied (silhouetted) gay blow job. At a glance that might not all be noticeable, but if that sort of material were more frequent throughout the book maybe it wouldn’t have passed?

I’m not really sure what Apple is afraid of. the optimist in me wants to think that they’re just being careful as they wade into the world of print content. the easiest way to make everyone happy would maybe be to note such material as for ‘mature readers’ only. but so far my experience with the process was pretty good.

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