I really like this Cult of Mac’s point of view on all this emotional criticism about iBooks Author and the EULA that comes with it. My only diverging point of view it this: Amazon may have a book store spammed with junk or sub-quality books written by pseudo-author but I must say that if you look at the App Store state of affair right now, you can find a lot of crappy apps that are simply piece of junk that Apple Review Teams should have stopped from being put on the App Store shelfs. I expect the same kind of crappy ibooks in the iBookstore in the next few years. 

John Gruber could’t say it more in line with what I think about Apple’s current choice behind iBooks Author file format and standard usage. 

What Apple is saying is: you can distribute iBooks that you make with iBook Author freely in any way you want. That is cool with us. But, if you wan’t to make a profit out of your books, then you’ll have to feel it through our iBookstore and we’ll have a 30% share of your sales. Sounds fare? I think so. You don’t agree to these terms, delete iBooks Author from your computer. That is is.