Apple's book, film services go dark in China


A man shows an example of an iBook textbook on an iPad after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York January 19, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/Files

BEIJING: Apple Inc's online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. 

Attempts by Reuters on April 22 to access Apple's iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services were met with a message in Chinese saying they were "unusable". 

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