Others,
like iBooks, look like poorly built Android apps.
The major retailers
like iBooks, Nook Press, and Kobo are a fixture at big - time conferences like Book Expo America and the London Book Fair.
Imagine an iPad app that works
like iBooks (as others have suggested) except you can browse / search the entire library (both on / offline).
Murasaki is a scroll - based reader like usual web browers, not a page flip - based reader
like iBooks.
It's kind of
like iBooks Author for Apple and iTunes U, but it uses PDFs of existing texts as a starting point and offers over-the-top digital features for Kindle - based consumption.
While Apple might be tying their hands here, preventing them from integrating the store into the app
like iBooks, they could at least come up with a custom iPad storefront, a problem Kindle suffers from as well.
Now wait a moment before you do that because you've got to format your book for Smashwords first so they can distribute it to stores
like ibooks and kobo etc..
I think the other stores
like iBooks, Kobo, Nook work much better when you have more books and you can put the first in the series as a Perma - free.
Besides the new in - app dictionary — which lets you tap on any word to see its definition, much
like the iBooks and BN eReader apps already offered — the updated Kindle app also lets you look up words in Google or Wikipedia.
Like iBooks, Stanza can be synced with iTunes, but it also has the capability like Ibis Reader to connect to OPDF repositories as well as Calibre Content Servers.
Which is weird, since there is nothing
like iBooks Author right now, and the Kindle Fire doesn't match up to the iPad.
It looked just
like ibooks.
The actual reading part looks a lot
like iBooks, which is not a bad thing!
Last week, Apple also launched their own «iBooks Author Starter Kit,» which runs you through all the steps to creating a totally interactive book — which includes materials
like an iBooks Author template, color palette, copy decks, images, videos, keynote presentation, and other interactive tools.
Kindle for iPad: Getting and reading e-books Kindle has no built - in store
like iBooks, so I had to launch the web browser and shop Kindle titles on Amazon.com.
And,
like the iBooks Author app itself, the guide is completely free to download and use.
Any book that is enrolled in Select can't be sold on another platform
like iBooks or Barnes and Noble.
Some people sell sets of nine or 10 books on other platforms
like iBooks for much more than $ 9.99.
Within the next couple of weeks Smashwords will vet my formatting and start distributing the collection to places
like iBooks and Sony (taking care of all the small fries so I don't have to).
The reason
I like iBooks is because when you go to their store that is the truest sense of what readers want to read.
If people don't
like iBooks, they can take advantage of the Kindle app to purchase and read ebooks.
Like iBooks, eReader formats text into two columns for easy scanning when you read in landscape mode.
They have a great submission process that gives authors free ISBN numbers and will submit your work to the leading bookstores
like iBooks, Sony, Amazon and so on.
This is a very frustrating situation for people who live outside the USA but want to download essential applications
like iBooks, iWork and other applications that are exclusive to the iPad that prevent you from using this device as an E-Reader or work device.
Readers can simply enter a regular email address at the time of their request and they will receive an email with links to download a PDF version (viewable in applications
like iBooks) or an AZW version (viewable in all Kindle apps on iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, etc.) of their Kindlegraph.
That's certainly the lion's share, but the sales in places
like iBooks and Nook are not insignificant.
I found myself wanting to turn pages with taps on the edges
like iBooks and Kindle, but an upward swipe ends up being fairly natural.
Apps
like iBooks and Nook can read ePub files purchased from their respective online stores or downloaded from the web.
I finally found my niche in self - publishing the Kindle and other book publishing market places
like iBooks, Barnes & Noble and many others.
I also really
like the iBooks application to load my own books in.
Know, however, that items purchased from stores
like iBooks or Kindle require those apps to read the books.
Especially since I have been selling well on places
like iBooks.
Applications
like iBooks Author from Apple can do a lot of the technical work for you but the most important parts are creative and planning, and that is all up to you.
Like iBooks, I've found Google Play's process of getting books live on their system ridiculously complicated.
ADE does not have very good support for newer EPUB features and formatting, so you may not see the same thing in ADE as you do in better reading systems
like iBooks and Readium.
It really looks
like the iBooks app is going to be a bit more intuitive for iPhones and to a lesser extent iPads.
Like that ibooks bestseller list too!
So what about all those other formats you hear of,
like iBook, Mobi, KF8, Nook, ACS?
We liked the iBooks app the best, but it's only available on iOS devices.
Not only did the old prototype look a lot
like an iBook, it was almost as big as one, too.
Not exact matches
However, the LULU version, the ebook, can be read on any electronic reader
like Kindle or
iBooks.
Much easier when it comes to physical storage, plus I
like being able to highlight and take notes right on the pages of the book via the
iBooks app.
Apart from CreateSpace, you can publish your book to popular channels
like Barnes & Noble, Kobo,
iBooks and Scribd.
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).
The obvious caveat is that this experiment only captures e-book sales on Amazon, not on other retailers
like Apple
iBooks and Google Play.
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.
I think what Amazon is trying to do is eventually have a robust solution
like Apple has for their
iBooks Author program.
Like most Apple products,
iBooks Author is beautiful.
And
like iTunes, Calibre has the ability to convert between one ebook format and another: between ePub and mobi (old Kindle) or AZW3 (newer Kindle), say, or between LIT format files and ePub, so that you can read that old Microsoft Reader book on the
iBooks app of your iPad or Mac.
The digital revolution had made that possible with retailers
like Amazon, B&N,
iBooks, Google and Kobo opening their doors to authors.