iBooks Author Clarified, More Macs Support Internet Recovery

The release of iBooks Author brought criticism several weeks ago that the license agreement forbade users from exporting PDFs to be sold outside of Apple’s own store. But Apple clarified things this week by stating that the restriction is only for the iBooks format, which can only be used in iBooks anyway. iBooks Author can be used to produce PDFs that can be sold anywhere, and even iBooks-formatted files that can be distributed freely anywhere.
Apple continues to push the new feature of Lion Internet Recovery to more Macs. Many 2010 models received a firmware update this week that allows them to boot using firmware, connect to Apple servers and install Lion onto an empty hard drive. This functionality is needed as Lion does not come on a DVD like previous operating systems.