Novelist Censors Own Book To Sell As iPhone App [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... 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 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? [Knife Music, censored but free on iTunes]
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Novelist Censors Own Book To Sell As iPhone App
textually.org —
... book Knife Music was rejected from the iTunes App Store because of "obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory" language as been published, but only after he took out the dirty parts.
All explicit words or scenes have been carefully removed from this second version of the ebook, to suit readers of all ages. The print version remains unchanged. KNIFE MUSIC is available at amazon.com. Please visit the KNIFE MUSIC website at www.knifemusicbook.com
[via Gizmodo] ...

