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How to Add Books to Your iPad and iPhone Without Connecting to iTunes

3 March, 20194 March, 2019iBooks, iDevice, iTunes, Kindle (platform), Tips and Tricks5 Comments

Adding third-party ebooks to Apple Books or one of the other ebook apps on your iDevice used to be quite painful. You had to use one of Apple's proprietary...

Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free

18 December, 201818 December, 2018Audiobook, Freebies, iBooks3 Comments

Apple kicked off a new ebook marketing push yesterday with a new affiliate toolbox, and as part of that marketing effort it has also released six audiobooks in partnership...

Apple Releases New Apple Books Affiliate Marketing Toolbox

17 December, 201817 December, 2018iBooksOne Comment

One of Amazon's great strengths in the book market and elsewhere is its affiliate program. It's just easier to use an Amazon affiliate link than to use one linking...

Pages Now Publishes Directly to Apple Books

9 November, 20189 November, 2018Apple, e-Reading Software, iBooks AuthorOne Comment

Apple is now promoting their word processing app with the pitch that you can use it to publish a book to Apple Books: Publish your book directly to Apple...

How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks

1 July, 201818 August, 2018iBooks, Self-Pub12 Comments

Apple is notorious for the ridiculously pointless rule that if you want to sell ebooks on their platform, you have to use their app and their hardware to do...

What We Know About the New Apple Pages

3 April, 20183 April, 2018e-Reading Software, iBooks Author2 Comments

When Apple launched a new ebook-focused version of Pages last week, some took it to mean that Apple was junking iBooks Author in favor of Pages. Others mistakenly saw...

iBooks App to Feature ‘Today’ Section in iOS 12 (?)

22 March, 201822 March, 2018e-Reading Software, iBooks, Rumors3 Comments

There's a new rumor going around that the nest major release of iOS will feature a radically redesigned iBooks app. MacRumors is repeating an unsubstantiated report in the Japanese blog Mac...

Bloomberg: Apple Changing the Name of iBooks to Books Means a New Fight in the eBook Market

25 January, 201825 January, 2018iBooks9 Comments

Bloomberg is making a mountain out of a molehill over an upcoming change to one of Apple's apps. Someone over there heard that Apple is updating iBooks and changing...

iTunes v12.7.0.166 No Longer Supports iBooks

13 September, 201726 September, 2017e-Reading Software, iBooks, iDevice, iTunes44 Comments

Apple rolled out a new version of i Tunes today, and something is missing. Early downloaders reported on MobileRead, and I can confirm, that Apple has removed the iBooks...

iOS 10.3.2 Update Stops eBooks in iBooks from Hacking Your iPad

16 May, 201718 May, 2017e-Reading Software, iBooks, iDevice2 Comments

When I raised the alarm four years back that your mobile device could be hacked by an Epub3 ebook and turned into a botnet slave, many people called me...

Apple Doesn’t Love iBooks

8 February, 201725 June, 2017e-Reading Software, iBooks Author19 Comments

Every so often a pundit makes the prediction that _this_ will be the year that Apple gets interested in iBooks (and, for example, launch iBooks apps for Android), but as...

CNet: IDPF-W3C Merger Will Enable eBooks to Have Tech It Already Has Which No One Wants

3 February, 201720 June, 2017DeBunking, iBooks6 Comments

Earlier this week the IDPF and the W3C announced the formal completion of their merger. Subsuming the second-most important ebook standards organization(*) into the W3C will have no immediate...

Security Hole Discovered in Amazon, Apple, Google eBook Portals

28 January, 201729 January, 2017Google Books, iBooks, Kindle (platform), Security & PrivacyLeave a comment

A security researcher revealed this week that Amazon and other ebook retailers had neglected to patch a fifteen-year-old XML security flaw. From The Register: The similar but separate XML external...

Apple Announces the “Best of” iBooks, Movies, Music, Apps for 2016

7 December, 201613 May, 2017iBooks2 Comments

Yesterday Apple published its annual Best of 2016 lists for iTunes and iBooks, naming If I was Your Girl and Behind Closed Doors as two of the editorial picks in...

Apple Continues to be OCD Over Mentions of its Products in eBooks

22 November, 201623 November, 2016iBooks8 Comments

Apple is well-known for raising the most ridiculous objections to content sold through its service. It has blocked apps in iTunes for simply mentioning an associated website (Bol.com), forbidden...

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