I just found out that Apple is rejecting my new manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams and won’t carry it in their store because inside the manifesto are links to buy the books I mention in the bibliography.

Quoting here from their note to me, rejecting the book: “Multiple links to Amazon store. IE page 35, David Weinberger link.”

So this is going to be challenging for affliates and publishers trying to include links in their ebooks.

Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon.

Finally Seth's advice to the ebook stores:

I think that Amazon and Apple and B&N need to take a deep breath and make a decision on principle: what’s inside the book shouldn’t be of concern to a bookstore with a substantial choke on the marketplace. [...] These stores can’t have it both ways. The web works because it’s open. The stores (all three of them) need to be too.

I personnally think it's pretty useless not being able to link to sources of content on the web from an ebook. Ebooks can be kept up to date easily and links to new sources curated by the author. Not being to include links takes away one of the benefits of digital books...