I suspect the entire reason to have a dedicated app is to maximize profitability by bypassing the need to share as much revenue with Amazon or Apple by selling a Kindle or
iBook version.
Fortunately, you can get it from Amazon for less than $ 27, and there is
an iBook version for a much - more - reasonable $ 19.99.
This is unfortunate, because Ernie Svenson's practical, quick - start guide to blogging, written with lawyers in mind, is actually quite good, despite its silly name (it takes more like 2 or 3 hours to read) and hefty price tag ($ 40, unless you get
the iBook version I linked to above, which is more reasonably - priced at $ 20).
I always look for
the iBook version first, but rarely find what i'm looking for.
My own impression of the fixed - page (portrait only) Apple
iBook version of 68 Blocks was that the production values were outstanding.
Here are three screenshots showing you the smart links at the back of
the iBook version of my latest release, Origins (A Seventeen Series Thriller Book 5)
Between a Kindle version of your book, which is where readers are today, and an interactive
iBook version of your book, which is where readers will be tomorrow, your content will be available for purchase on billions (with a capital B) of mobile devices.
The ePub3 version, which itself comes in two flavors, can deliver almost as many functions as
the iBook version, and indeed can do things the iBook can not yet do.
Tiara the Magic Cat is currently available on Kindle; the Apple
iBook version will be published very soon.
Marco's Mystery is currently available on Kindle; the Apple
iBook version will be published very soon.
It has produced
an ibook version of the HTML book and has multiple videos produced by the BBC based on its HTML book.
Yes, of course, the book will be available in kindle, nook and
iBook versions.
Word of warning: If you are going to include links in your ebooks and you are selling on both Amazon and the Apple iBookstore, then make sure you don't have a link to Amazon in
your iBooks version.
Most I buy the Kindle edition (first choice), or
the iBooks version (second choice) or the Kobo version (last choice).
Kindle books are almost always less expensive than
iBook versions.
Not exact matches
However, the LULU
version, the ebook, can be read on any electronic reader like Kindle or
iBooks.
The Green Kitchen truly manages to make the mouth water with simple, attainable recipes that leap from the page in gorgeous photographs (even in the
iBook / Kindle
version, which is a huge plus).
Readers interested in purchasing a digital
version should visit Amazon or
iBooks.
The file is a pdf
version of an interactive book, available from the
iBooks Store.
In addition, teachers have the ability to update their
iBook and release the newest
version to students at anytime.
Occasionally we have printed out PDF
versions of books to display in classrooms but we have also uploaded pupils» work on Book Creator as an
iBook onto our Frog VLE which is the preferred way to share the pupils work that contains audio or video.
(The current
version of the Kindle app has significantly more positive reviews than
iBooks.)
With
iBooks on the Apple iPad, Amazon's own cross-platform Kindle app and the Sony Reader Touch Edition, is the third
version of Amazon's Kindle still the e-reader king?
I thought why not give it a go, and create a Kindle
version of my children's picture book that's on the
iBook Store, «A Little Bit of Darkness» (It's like Tim Burton meets Dr Seuss).
Having
versioning inside your EPUB fro
iBooks will prompt the user to update their book when an update becomes available.
On remaking, a
version number can be entered in the EPUB3 and Apple use the internal
version number as a way of issuing update notification to your readers using
iBooks.
Digital
versions of the complete 3 - volume JOJO»S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: PART 2 — BATTLE TENDENCY story arc are available now for $ 10.99 each (US / CAN) across all platforms serviced by VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App, as well as from the Nook, Kobo, Kindle,
iBooks, comiXology, and GooglePlay stores.
The «Year Two» arc debuted today on comiXology, Kindle, Nook, and
iBooks, and a motion - comics
version in the DC2 format was released as well on Madefire.
Can I purchase the ebook
version of Secrets of Eden through Apple's
iBooks store?
First of all,
iBooks Author doesn't export in the older, more widely adopted ePub2 format, but only into Apple's
version of the more feature - rich ePub3 format.
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.
If you are running the latest
version of OS X (Mavericks), the best program to use for reviewing your EPUB is
iBooks for Mac.
I also just wanted to let everyone know you can now download the
iBooks sample file directly from my website at http://www.fantasycastlebooks.com, and that there is also a KF8
version up now as well.
From your basic InDesign document (s) you can easily export the best PDFs for print, colored PDFs for reading online or on your iPad, ePUBs for
iBooks and Nook, and a Kindle
version for Fire and the older
versions.
It means that, if you want a eBook
version of your work, available on as many retailer sites as possible and in as many countries as possible (and these are the two driving reasons for wanting an eBook
version in the first place), then, depending on the type of book you have written, you don't make one
version of an eBook, you make up to four: pdf, ePub2 / Mobi / KF8, ePub3 (fixed or flowing), and
iBook.
-LSB-...] Now, we can tell specific
versions for
iBooks and other modern apps offering solid HTML and CSS support still exist.
I wouldn't recommend getting the current
version from B&N or
iBooks (or Kobo or Sony or Diesel), because the
versions they have are older.
there's also a fix that could be added for older
versions: https://github.com/scottjehl/Device-Bugs/issues/36#issuecomment-45308900 (and hey,
iBooks supports JS so this is doable).
The new
version of
iBooks is adopting a worldwide approach with over 40 different languages now supported and is expanding to many more markets.
Six out of the top ten on
iBooks are different
versions of The Walking Dead, both single - issue comics, collected editions, and one volume of the Compendium, which is a deluxe collected edition.
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version of
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Apple has just released a new feature for the iOS and MAC
version of
iBooks that allows customers to gift an eBook to a friend or loved one.
The second one is the link to my book on
iBooks (note I format my ebooks with Vellum and can generate the appropriate ebook
version for each store).
Interactive
iBook: as the authority on Apple's next - generation digital publishing, we create an interactive, multimedia - driven
version of your work that well positions you for a more visual future.
It is so much better to indie publish yourself on Amazon,
ibooks, Kobo, Nook, Google Play, etc and also create a Print
version of your book using a Print On Demand service like Createspace.
Also, a Bloomberg report claimed Apple's re-invested itself in the E-Book front, with a redesigned
version of
iBooks, the digital book reader app for iOS.
If I look up the same ISBN in iTunes Producer, the metadata returns — but I've lost my newly - exported
iBooks Author book and the
version number associated with it.
The Globe recently offered me a review copy of the Apple
iBook multimedia
version of the title, 68 Blocks.
You can stick with standards compliant ePub and any restrictions inherent in the format and publish everywhere, including the
iBook Store or you create a
version in Apple's format with all the bells and whistles knowing that it can only be read on Apple's iOS devices.
Personally, I'd gladly trade the few customers of my book who bought both
iBooks and Kindle
versions for more people buying the book because they don't have to decide which platform to read on.