From time to time Apple issues a press release
about iBooks Store launching in new countries.
There was a great debate on Twitter
about iBooks Author vs Book Creator back in 2015.
About the iBooks availability, it always takes a while there.
If I was hesitant
about iBooks before, I'm dead set against it now.
The nice thing
about iBooks Author is that they currently have the ability to put video and audio within the e-books.
It's enough to make one wonder: does Apple even care
about iBooks?
How
about the iBooks app for the Blackberry?
I don't understand your point
about iBooks and the cost of uploading.
One important thing you need to know
about iBooks in particular is that you can not buy a specific book from iBooks as a gift.
One thing that bothered
me about iBooks is the fact that you can't adjust line spacing, did they finally fixed that?
One thing that's nice
about iBooks is that content ratings are handled at the individual title level, instead of for the app as a whole.
Something that should be mentioned
about the iBook author format is that the license agreement stipulates you can only charge for a book in iBooks format when you distribute it through Apple's store, not if it's available elsewhere.
You can find more details
about this iBook DRM remover from tuneskit.com
Too bad
about the iBook store.
Not exact matches
In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk
about education, where it unveiled its
iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all
about the iPad.
How big a piece of that pie Kobo will carve for itself remains in question; they say they've currently got
about 10 % of U.S. e-book sales, roughly the same as Apple's
iBooks store and well behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Check out a FREE preview of the book at the Eat the Yolks website to see what it's all
about, or grab the audiobook on
iBooks or Audible!
He's the author of a series of
iBooks that immerse readers in inquiry experiences
about World War II.
The upcoming new
ibook by Kathleen Cushman, «The Motivation Equation,» stands to expand on her pioneering work in leveraging students» voices in shaping learning environments, pedagogical practices, and transforming how we talk
about learning.
Well
iBooks Author appears to be
about as easy as using Word or Adobe Creative Suite.
An amazing app that allows anyone to create beautiful
iBooks Textbooks — and just
about any other kind of book — for iPad and Mac.
It took me
about 30 minutes to put together a book for her, publish in
iBooks and email the ePub file to my brother... to open it up on his iPad....
After
iBooks comes Barnes & Noble's Nook store, which despite its steepening downward slide over the past two years, still remains the number three eBook retailer with
about 7 - 8 %.
The books, created with
iBooks author software, may have contained too many features like hyperlinks, images, and embedded video, leading the students to try to garner enough information
about the story from the extras rather than interacting with the actual text.
While I'm very excited
about the opportunity to use
iBooks Author as a single tool to create fixed - format ebooks for the three major retailers that accept them (Apple, Kobo, and Amazon), I'm less sanguine
about using the app to create reflowable ebooks — unless I'm creating a separate version for use on B&N, Smashwords, and the rest.
So what
about all those other formats you hear of, like
iBook, Mobi, KF8, Nook, ACS?
Jim and Bryan also chatted
about the Dear Author lawsuit, the Guardian reviewer stalking piece, five marketing mistakes most beginning fiction writers make, why Amazon is doing the world a favor, and several new features for the
iBooks platform.
The book will be released on February 5, 2018, but you can pre-order it today on: Amazon and
iBooks About the author: Misha Elliott is a nomadic soul, living all over the US with her Scottish husband.
While it'll be nice for publishers to puff
about how their ebooks are selling, it's also an important validation for the Kindles and Nooks and
iBooks of the world.
iBooks has a sales threshold before it agrees to put out a ranking, though, so although you will soon be able to see sales stats (
about 3 days after the sale occurs), your ebooks won't yet have met the threshold for sales and reviews that will let your ebooks get ranked on iTunes.
Just popping my head in to make sure all my
iBooks fans and readers know
about this cool feature over at
iBooks starting today!!
This did get me thinking
about how to actually create vertically centered text in
iBooks.
The conclusion is also available at The Reading Edge Episode 7 along with the Steve Jobs's comments
about the Kindle and the
iBooks store.
We're delighted today to talk
about the latest
iBooks Author project we've been working on with HarperCollins Children's Books.
If you haven't already started my Fairhope series, or you're looking for something new to read, take a look at the
iBooks list and see... [Read more...]
about Special
iBooks Feature: FREE New Adult Series Starters
Think
about it; with an e-book, you might sell it on Amazon,
iBooks, Kobo, Nook, a whole load of other places, then you might have a print edition, and then you might have the audio edition.
We talk
about Apples
iBooks new Publishing tools aimed at independent authors and what you have to do to submit books on it!
We are also continuing to improve the VIZ.com site as the best place for readers to find out
about print and digital availability by providing links to
iBooks, Nook, Kindle, and our own Viz Manga platform for all available titles.
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Where's your sob story
about the lack of
iBooks on Kindle?
Following the interview, I've included a fair - use excerpt of audio from Steve Jobs's comments
about the Kindle and the new
iBooks app which will come on the iPad, setting up a high - stakes strategic battle between Apple and Amazon.
Until now, readers could visit the Kindle Singles store online or browse through Apple's selection of
iBooks on their iPad or iPhone, but Polskin hopes to put information
about works across platforms under one roof and provide the kind of reviews and context for these books that you might find in a literary publication like Publisher's Weekly.
While we assume that most readers buying the files from our website (which provides Laura and us with greater revenue) will have the technical nous to install the relevant ereading apps etc, we may need to provide some generic instructions for subscribers
about downloading files to the different platforms, how to install Kindle and
iBook apps, ADE, etc..
Apple of course has their own
iBooks reading app, but I always caution people
about buying from
iBooks because the ebooks are permanently locked into Apple's ecosystem for good and can never be read on any other devices.
In fact, they are trying to force IDPF to adopt
ibooks format as EPUB3... The people who are going to use iBooks Author won't bother about
ibooks format as EPUB3... The people who are going to use
iBooks Author won't bother about
iBooks Author won't bother
about that.
It is called
iBooks Storytime and not much is known
about the new feature, but Apple intends on introducing it sometime in the near future.
Also, proprietary standards for particular platforms such as Kindle or
iBooks, might hinder widespread adoption as content producers debate
about what formats they want to produce to.
Taking a specific example,
iBook store sold
about half a million eBooks in a period of one month.
Here are some first impressions
about using the iPhone version, how it differs from
iBooks on the iPad, and how it measures up to other mobile reading apps.