I was alerted by a reader who told me that there has been a new update regarding the usage of the Stanza app. Like most of you iPhone owners know, Stanza is a nifty little e-Book reader app that lets its users load their desired e-Books to the iPhone and read it anywhere and anytime they want. I too have the app downloaded to my iPhone for quite some time but have yet to utilize it fully due to my hectic schedule (note to self: read more books!). So when I checked the app this morning, sure enough there was a little note asking users to update to the latest version. It read: ‘Removed the ability to share books via USB as requested by Apple’.

I thought, boy, some people are going to be riled up at this. And I was right. Unhappy users expressed their dissatisfaction but Lexycle, Stanza’s creator only confirmed that Apple had indeed requested for this change to take place. They however, declined to elaborate more.

Why did this happen, you ask? My guess is that Apple does not want its users moving files around using third party means. Instead, they want users to use their proprietary iTunes program. The Stanza app indirectly found a loophole in this issue, something that Apple may have disliked.

And here’s another factor that may have led to Apple interfering with the app’s updates: Lexycle has previously been acquired by Amazon so if you put two and two together, you may have drawn your own conclusions that Apple is indirectly targeting their rival in the e-Book industry.

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