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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

iBooks StoryTime Brings Kids’ Books to the TV screen

11 November, 201612 November, 2016e-Reading Software, iBooksLeave a comment

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...

iBooks Author 2.5 Brings New Templates for Interactive Epub eBooks

21 September, 201621 September, 2016e-Reading Software, iBooks AuthorOne 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...

Apple Launched iBooks Editions, And No One Noticed

13 June, 201622 June, 2016iBooks6 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...

Apple’s iBooks and iTunes Movies Go Dark in China

22 April, 201628 April, 2016iBooks, iTunes5 Comments

Apple’s online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms....

Apple Should Get Serious About eBooks, And Other Navel-Gazing

29 March, 20163 April, 2016iBooks11 Comments

So The Bookseller has drunk the Kool-Aid and joined the school of thought that thinks it would be great if Apple got serious about the ebook...

How to Set Up iCloud for iBooks (And Why You Shouldn’t)

28 January, 201612 May, 2017Cloud Storage, iBooks, Tips and Tricks24 Comments

Apple’s new cloud-syncing option for iBooks is one of the more highly anticipated features in iOS 9.3, but there is a surprising lack of technical info...

No, Apple’s iBookstore Won’t Make a Run for Market Share in 2016

11 January, 201612 May, 2017DeBunking, iBooks9 Comments

With the new year less than two weeks old, many pundits are posting their predictions on what we’ll see in the coming year, and that includes...

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Apple Announce Best-Selling Books of 2015

10 December, 201510 December, 2015Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Best-Seller List, Google Books, iBooks2 Comments

With the year coming to a close, the major book and ebook retailers have started posting their “best of” lists. Barnes & Noble, for example, took...

iBooks Goes Down in Apple’s Fourth Outage in Less Than a Week

15 October, 201515 October, 2015iBooksLeave a comment

Anyone who uses online services is used to periodic outages, but lately Apple has been having more than its fair share. Apple Insider reported this morning...