1. Copy from iBooks a code snippet; 2. Run ibook_paste; 3. Paste into text editor

ibook_paste

#!/usr/bin/env bash

pbpaste \
  | ruby -ne '
    BEGIN { $blanks = [] }
    if ($_ =~ /^\s*$|^Excerpt From: */)
      $blanks << $_
    else
      puts($blanks)
      $blanks = []
      puts $_.gsub(/^“|”$|\s*\p{InDingbats}$/, "")
    end
  ' \
  | pbcopy

Turns this:

“defmodule KeyValueStore do
  def start() do
    GenServer.start(KeyValueStore, nil, name: KeyValueStore)    ❶
  end”

Excerpt From: Saša Jurić. “Elixir in Action, Second Edition MEAP V03.” iBooks. 

into this:

defmodule KeyValueStore do
  def start() do
    GenServer.start(KeyValueStore, nil, name: KeyValueStore)
  end