Copy / paste from iBooks?

Right?! ***. What a joke. Extracting small passages to further progress the understanding and knowledge of yourself and the species, as a whole, does not seem like something to be restricted.

Agreeable wrote:

Note that an acknowledgement and link to the book is copied with the text, but they can be easily deleted afterward.

I'd like to throw out that this "feature" has made iBooks almost intolerable for books about programming, where one of the "advantages" should be that you can copy a code snippet to try it out, but alas between “educated” quotes and the useless "excerpt from" appended to every copied string, I went back to using PDFs for the most part when I can get them (I generally won't buy an ebook with DRM, so I don't buy from the Apple store much).

The enforced citation in every copy is an absurd and intrusive "feature" that also has no basis in current copyright law, btw (it's not a proper citation, there's certainly no stature that defines a responsibility on the part of an e-reader to enforce citation and there's absolutely no reason that "iBooks" gets added even if it were - if anything it adds an implication that iBooks had something to do with the text).

Example of a fairly useless copy:

soup_string = BeautifulSoup(helloworld)”

Excerpt From: “Getting Started with Beautiful Soup.” iBooks.

When using the desktop application on your Mac, I've found that the easiest way is to highlight the text I want to copy. Then I can select the text in the Notes panel and copy it from there, without quotation marks or copyright information.

Just wanted to add my 2 cents. I have just downloaded and bought the book I wanted on Kindle because of this insane inability. I would have preffered it on iBooks, but when reading the sample I found out about this stupid limitation. Way to shoot yourself in the foot Apple!

This whole thing is just outright horsecrap.

Solution - highlight the text from the doc - it will bring up a pop up with option to add note - click on add note and the text will appear in a bar on the left. Copy from note and paste into a text editor!