Apple Names “Connecting to the iTunes Store” as the Best Book of 2020 (so Far)
As you saw earlier this week, I like to report on Best Books, lists, so when I saw that the Apple Books twitter account had tweeted...Continue reading
Category: iBooks
Apple is Discontinuing iBooks Author on 1 July
Apple sent out an email yesterday to iBooks Author users, informing them that the nine-year-old macOS app will be discontinued on 1 July, and removed from...Continue reading
Apple Launched a Publishing Portal for Book Authors – And You Don’t Need a Mac to Use It!
Apple still doesn’t care if you want to read an ebook you buy from them on non-Apple hardware, but they have finally launched a publishing portal...Continue reading
Apple Touts New Apple Books Features (in iOS 13?)
Apple sent out an email on Saturday touting new features in the Apple Apple Books app, but it’s not clear that they have updated the app...Continue reading
Apple Books to Get “Reading Goals” Feature
Yesterday Apple announced changes to the iPad’s OS that will positively affect how you can use the iPad to create. That was cool, but it’s not...Continue reading
How to Add Books to Your iPad and iPhone Without Connecting to iTunes
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...Continue reading
Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free
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...Continue reading
Apple Releases New Apple Books Affiliate Marketing Toolbox
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...Continue reading
Pages Now Publishes Directly to Apple Books
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...Continue reading
How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks
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...Continue reading
What We Know About the New Apple Pages
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....Continue reading
iBooks App to Feature ‘Today’ Section in iOS 12 (?)
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...Continue reading
Bloomberg: Apple Changing the Name of iBooks to Books Means a New Fight in the eBook Market
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...Continue reading
iTunes v12.7.0.166 No Longer Supports iBooks
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...Continue reading
iOS 10.3.2 Update Stops eBooks in iBooks from Hacking Your iPad
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...Continue reading