"Last week, Europa Editions, a publisher of world literature in translation, wrote on their Facebook page that one of their novels, The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi, has been removed from the iTunes bookstore due to the image on its cover.
The erotic novel discusses the role of sex in modern Arabic society, and its cover features the backside of a reclining, naked woman. This may seem worthy of removal, but, as Europa Editions points out, "classical nudes by Ingres, Renoir, and Botticelli, not to mention photography by Man Ray," are not deemed inappropriate by Apple, nor are modern books with similar covers."
Apple, Apple, Apple... Come on, dudes... It's 2012. You are fucking Apple. You have your consumer market. You are in the pocket and backpack of... hell, half the planet. The point where you could offend people with products you offer and lose consumers is way, way past. And where did this puritanical ideology come from? Who at Apple looked at a product the first time out and said, "Nope, not here. Apple's a family company." Was it Steve Jobs? Huh? Like Sam Walton at Wal-Mart before him, did he take a stand for the non-controversial? Cause, and I mean this with all due respect, when Walton kicked it, Wal-Mart started carrying the same unedited smut as everyone else. Your audience, the latest generation, has grown up with the most unprecedented access to pornography the world has ever seen. They made 50 Shades of Grey a big moneymaker. They can take a woman's back and the word "vagina."
Apple Bans 'Erotic' Book Cover From iTunes - Huffington Post
Some students at Peking University are protesting the inclusion of an Apple study center into a library they call "sacred." The 430 square foot computer lab is taking up valuable space in an already cramped study environment, student against the lab say, as well a promoting commercialism in a pure academic environment through education discounts that can be bought from the computers. Some have no problem with the addition of more study aid tools, while others simply wish it could have been created off site. 
Welcome to this weeks Tech News of the Week, where all your library tech news gets shuffled when I can't think of more than a sentence to say about it.
Apple and five publishing companies have been hit with a class action lawsuit by the firm 
. Of course, they could feel left out. This is the first major ebook court battle that they have not been apart of.
What do Google Books, Amazon Kindle and other eBook services have in common? They have all been affected by Apple's policy about in-app stores. Apple states that all apps have to be directed through their marketplace, taking a hefty 30% of anything sold. The above apps (and many more) have been updated, removing consumer options and strengthening my happiness that I finally moved on to the Android system.
The beginner reader series from Harper Collins "I Can Read" is being brought into the digital market. The series will be available on the Apple iBookstore and the Nook Bookstore sometime soon. 
Do you have an Apple iPod, iPhone or iPad with 3G service? Then Apple knows right where you are at all times, and so could anyone else with access to your device or computer. Several researchers have come out and directly stated that Apple devices with 3G service monitor and collect information about where they are, even if you directly opt for the device and apps not to, then transmit that information to Apple via iTunes when they sync. 
but "Big Apple" is taken. I thought of coming up with a Santa Claus joke, but I never had to pay Santa for bad service. I finally settled on now just referring to any bad, extraneous or invasive behavior by a device or service as an "Apple."
Back to the drawing board for Dark Horse as the comic publishing company's app was rejected from Apple. The reason for the rejection is close to the same as the Sony eReader apps rejection: The app must not sell products from within the that are not also available to be sold from Itunes, Apple's digital store, or have a link to the store in the app or some such legal mumbo jumbo. Dark Horse's original plan was to sell their comics digitally at a discount to consumers. While still able to do that, the sometimes dickish behavior of Apple cuts out a wide portion of the market, as well as makes them eat months of development. In conclusion, Apple, I say unto thee: "Com'on." I might use your products more if they had more stuff I liked on them.