(Important: This is for
iBooks only.
iBooks only lets you list in ONE category (YA or SF but not both).
Removing DRM from
iBooks only for self - use, DO NOT share or spread the DRM free ebooks to any one else or any public domain.
iBooks only launched in the last few years and has been playing catchup with Amazon, Kobo and Barnes and Noble.
There are also one - click filters to view priced books, free books, all books and accumulated preorders (
iBooks only).
Audible also populates the majority of the iBooks catalog, but
iBooks only received a paltry 2.88 % of the total vote.
Not exact matches
Available from
iBooks or for your Kindle (Fire and Apps
only), this eBook will
only be available on TES until Blue Monday on January 21st 2013.
Part 1», the example of creating mLearning using
iBooks is a great strategy IF and
ONLY IF you are supporting iPads or iPhones.Another new twist to the device discussion is Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies.
• Ebooks created using Apple
iBooks Author output to the Apple
iBooks format — and can be sold
only through Apple.
Because Double Barrel is distributed through great alternative publisher Top Shelf, you can
only buy it through Comixology and
iBooks.
Enter «false» to show as single pages
only and remove the page turning effect in
iBooks.
Apple's electronic book effort,
iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works
only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.
The obvious caveat is that this experiment
only captures e-book sales on Amazon, not on other retailers like Apple
iBooks and Google Play.
They were selling it for
only $ 2 on the
iBooks store, but I wouldn't have bought it at all had I known how poor the quality would be.
It means
only a fraction of Apple's customer base today has convenient access to your books (which makes the enormous success of
iBooks all the more impressive).
From early 2016 to early 2017 Amazon sold over 406 million Kindle books, Apple
iBooks was was the second largest retailer during the same time period and
only sold 44 million titles.
[4] Amazon's Kid's Book Creator and Kindle Comic Creator have some of the same features, but where those will
only allow you to create books for the Kindle,
iBooks Author now has the ability to create ebooks that will work on Apple products, but also Kobos and — in theory — the newer Kindles at which the Amazon software is aimed.
An
iBooks ebook platform that
only works on Apple devices serves that end goal nicely.
Apple shows everyone how it is done with an ePub implementation on their
iBooks platforms that not
only lives up to spec for the most part, but extends it with significant improvements.
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.
If your
only mobile device is an iOS device, you can probably get by with just using
iBooks, since
iBooks cheerfully talks both EPUB and PDF.
It could
only create fixed - format ebooks, and could
only export directly to Apple's
iBooks Store.
(And
iBooks, which
only works on Apple's devices, but doesn't have noticeably different availability or pricing compared to Amazon or Barnes & Noble.)
But with Google's ebook platform floundering, Kobo all but pulling of the US, Barnes & Noble's ability to stay afloat a recurring concern, the
only real player we can depend on is
iBooks, which is doing increasingly well despite its obvious drawbacks, or the growth of new direct sales platforms by publishers.
Most indies deal
only with the online retailers, such as Amazon, B&N, Apple
iBooks, Kobo, etc., which means they have no need for distribution or sales to bookstore chains.
So far the demos I've seen show plain text and images
only — has anyone seen audio / video working in
iBooks?
The
only fly in the ointment is the dogged insistence at Amazon and Apple of sticking with their own proprietary formats, particularly for the formats that can handle complex documents (Amazon's KF9 and the one Apple's
iBooks Author creates).
D2D authors can distribute to any or all of our distribution channels, including Amazon's Kindle platform, Apple
iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and more — or choose
only one or two distribution channels at will.
This has been brewing for quite some time, and it seems
only with the advent of the Apple iPad and
iBooks store that publishers seem to be embolden enough to push for the tiered pricing.
The practical upshot of this fix is that you can now transfer EPUB files into
iBooks far more easily than before, when the
only way was to drop them into iTunes and do a USB sync.
However,
iBooks is
only on the iPad and the iPad has the BlueFire reader which works well.
Sadly (for Apple), I have to say that
iBooks is
only used store PDFs; Amazon has my eBook business and will keep it until I can read
iBooks on my computer.
The
only thing missing is the
iBooks - style «X pages left in this chapter» which I've found very useful.
Remember, most of this information is for
iBooks -
only ePUBs; they won't work anywhere else at the moment.
this is definitely something that should
only be included in
iBooks, and you should test and test again.
While
iBooks is one way to read ebooks and PDFs on the iPad, it's not the
only way.
figures for 6/30/14 — 12/31/14
only Total Paid Sales: 10 AZ Sales Rank: 480,464 - 1,559,867
iBooks: unrated rank (not enough sales) nook: unrated rank (not enough sales) Kobo Sales Rank: 4,836 — 5,223 AZ Sales: 6 Smashwords Sales: 3 Smashwords Free DL: 12
iBooks Sales: 0 Kobo Sales: 1 Nook Sales: 0
With
iBooks now shipped with iOS 8, it's relative importance is
only going to grow.
If I really love an author and the book is
only on Amazon I try to wait the 90 days to get it on
ibooks if I can.
BookShark is one of the few promotion sites where you can advertise not
only for Amazon, but also for Nook,
iBooks, and Kobo.
The
only app that will ever work with ebooks bought from the iBookstore is
iBooks.
OK, this is not terribly surprising, given that the new season just started, but it's interesting how
iBooks users deviate from readers on other platforms: Not
only are all three of the different formats (single issues, trade collections, and compendiums) represented, but the readers of the trade collections are buying both old and newer volumes.
In the past, viewing an
iBooks Author - created ebook online or via iTunes displayed the following message under the heading of «requirements»: «This book can
only be viewed using
iBooks 3.0 or later on an iPad.
It's interesting how much of a lock these two comics have on the
iBooks top ten, and that holds true further down the list as well; it's as if these are the
only titles a lot of people buy on
iBooks.
Apple provides free tools but
only really allow you to submit them to the
iBooks ecosystem if you make an enhanced book.
The new Apple
iBooks initiative is
only available to customers living in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Not
only do you get the same type of
iBooks experience, but the page you're turning is translucent.
And just to comment —
iBook is, presently, the
only major eBook retailer that still requires an ISBN (and that
only if you'll be charging for the book, free items don't require it).
As usual,
iBooks users show a lot of enthusiasm for Injustice and My Little Pony; it's interesting that this is the
only chart to show the latest issue of Batman Beyond 2.0, which came out on Saturday.
It's interesting that while the first volume of The Walking Dead charts reliably on the Kindle and Nook platforms,
only in
iBooks do the more recent volumes pop up.