iBooks

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

1 July, 2018 // 12 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 so (or go through an aggregator). While [Read More ...]

What We Know About the New Apple Pages

3 April, 2018 // 2 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 this as Apple [Read More ...]

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

22 March, 2018 // 3 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 [Read More ...]

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

25 January, 2018 // 9 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 its name, and somehow became [Read More ...]

iTunes v12.7.0.166 No Longer Supports iBooks

13 September, 2017 // 41 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 section from the iTunes app [Read More ...]

iOS 10.3.2 Update Stops eBooks in iBooks from Hacking Your iPad

16 May, 2017 // 2 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 alarmist and hysterical. The latest update for [Read More ...]

Apple Doesn’t Love iBooks

8 February, 2017 // 19 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 but as Daniel Steinberg [Read More ...]

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

3 February, 2017 // 6 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 impact [Read More ...]

Security Hole Discovered in Amazon, Apple, Google eBook Portals

28 January, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 [Read More ...]

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

7 December, 2016 // 2 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 iBooks. There's also a second set of [Read More ...]

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

22 November, 2016 // 8 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 [Read More ...]

iBooks StoryTime Brings Kids’ Books to the TV screen

11 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

Apple has just launched that new iBooks app which showed up in Apple's trademark filings a couple months back. iBooks StoryTime is a tvOS app which displays children's picture books on an Apple TV. [Read More ...]

iBooks Author 2.5 Brings New Templates for Interactive Epub eBooks

21 September, 2016 // 1 Comment

Apple rolled out a new update this week for its ebook-making app for the Mac. I am still waiting to hear back from users, but according to the changelog iBooks Author 2.5 adds an additional layer of [Read More ...]

Apple Launched iBooks Editions, And No One Noticed

13 June, 2016 // 6 Comments

Aside from the news that the iOS Ten beta would let you remove Apple's spam apps including iBooks, there wasn't much in the way of ebook news in today's WWDC keynote. There was, however, one small [Read More ...]

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