I posted recently about Knife Music – the medical thriller written by David Carnoy that was initially banned from the App Store in its eBook incarnation, due to ‘objectionable’ content. Today there’s good news on this – the book has now been approved and is available (and free!) in the App Store.
The not so good news is that the author had to tone down the graphic language in order to have it approved – as Gizmodo’s Wilson Rothman explains:
My friend David Carnoy, whose day job is an editor at CNet, finally got his greenlight from iTunes, but he had to change all the S-bombs to “damn” or “crap” and pull a lot of F-bombs too. Not only does “F me like you mean it” fail to maintain the same ring as the original NSFW dialog, but this chilling effect, directly or indirectly censoring our budding novelists, isn’t something Apple should be engendering.
Carnoy hopes to get the ‘uncensored’ version into the store in future as well, and has a very good suggestion for how this might happen:
Carnoy has hope to reintroduce the colorfully worded version as a standalone app soon. He says other app categories already have options for mature content, so why not books?
I think that makes a lot of sense. Setup an area for this type of content, require proof of age to look at / purchase, do what they need to do in order to not go any further down the censorship road. What do you all think? What’s the best way to handle this subject in the App Store?
Via: Gizmodo
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