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by veritgo 6243 days ago
This will probably be a good thing for the app in the long run.

- Eventually it will get into the app store

- All the publicity, fovorable reviews, and outrage over it will probably spur quite a few purchases / downloads. Maybe enough to make a top 10 list.

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What about the other companies which don't have so much publicity?
Tuth be known, I couldn't help wondering if the author truly was outraged, or if he was just trolling for publicity. I mean, it would have been five minutes work to add a filter to remove Karma Sutra from the list of books, yet instead he preferred to enter a back-and-forth with Apple, a no-win situation, instead of making the quick mod and getting his app out there.

Of course, I know that we hackers do like to take a stand for our priciples, so maybe he has a more altruistic motivation, but considering that he takes pains to add the possibility to register to be notified when the app comes out on his website (something which would take way longer to code than to filter the book in the first place), I have my doubts.