Apple issues minor update to iBooks

I dont have a Mac only windows can I still upload my book?

General
1. Customers should be able to browse and purchase books and other content from the iBookstore through iTunes on their Macs or PCs as well as through the iBooks App on their iOS device.
2. The iBooks App should be pre-installed in the next update of iOS. The iPad comes with an iPod built in. It should also come with a built in e-reader. This will urge more publishers to bring their books to the iBookstore.
App Improvements
1. Switching between "Categories" on the Bookshelf should be as snappy and as smooth as when switching between home screens on the iPad.
2. White Text on Black Background for reading in the dark. Under A,A button, list options for font color should look like: | Black| Sepia | White |
3. The Change Brightness button should be relocated under the A,A button at the bottom of list. That empty space should be replaced with an on screen orientation/rotation lock button.
4. Bottom of page under the page navigation bar and to the right of the page numbers, should tell the % of book that is completed based on the current page.
5. In the Table of Contents, at the top of list, there should be a "To Page" Option. When you click on it, a keypad will come up so you can enter the page number you wish to go to.
6. In the Table of Contents, At Bottom of list there should be an automatic MLA Citation button that brings you to a page with proper citation of the book in MLA Format.
iBookstore Navigation and Content Enhancements
1. A New navigation bar at the bottom of screen when launching the iBookstore. Current: | Featured | NY Times | Top Charts | Search | Purchases | New: | Books | Newsstand | Textbooks |Search | Purchases |
• When Books is tapped in the new navigation bar, There will be a navigation bar at the top of the screen that reads: | Library | Featured | Charts | Genres |
*Charts will include NY Times Charts as well as the iBookstore Top Charts


• When Newsstand is tapped. There will be a navigation bar at the top of the screen that reads: | Library | Newspapers | Magazines | * This is where the apps like The Daily, Wall Street Journal, Nylon will be relocated from the App Store. They will now be here and downloaded through the iBookstore and right onto your bookshelf. This will make them easier to browse.




• When Textbooks is tapped, There will be a navigation bar at the top of the screen that reads: | Library | Featured | Subjects | *This will be an essential way for students to get textbooks they need for class in ebook form. The iPad is the future of reading Textbooks. We need to make deals with publishers like Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Cengage Learning as well as other major textbook publishers to bring them to the store.

Policies
1. Purchasing ebooks - Publishers set price. Apple keeps 30%
2. Subscription Policy for Newspapers and Magazines – Publishers set price. Apple keeps 30%
3. Purchasing eTextbooks - Same as eBook policy. Publisher Sets Price. Apple Keeps 30% Customers can return bought eTextbooks due to dropping a course or switching their schedule up to 4 weeks after purchase.
4. Lending ebooks – Customers can lend a book to another iBooks user free. Allowed one lend per book. Person receiving the book has 48 hours to open, 7 days to read it, automatically removed from their bookshelf after the 7th day. Can only lend books you have purchased. Publishers choose whether to enable lending feature with the purchase of a book.
5. Renting ebooks - Rented at discounted price. Customer has 48 hours to open book, 21 days to read it, then it is automatically removed from their bookshelf after the 21st day. Publishers choose whether to enable rentals on books. Apple keeps 30 %
6. Renting eTextbooks - Textbooks can be rented on 6 month terms. August - January or January - June. Customers can return rented eTextbooks due to dropping course or switching schedule up to 4 weeks after purchase. Textbook is automatically removed from bookshelf at the end of the semester. Publishers choose whether to enable rentals of textbooks. Apple keeps 30%. *This will help publishers earn lost profit due to companies like Chegg.
Acquisitions
1. Apple needs to acquire the App Developer and Company Inkling. Inkling just landed multi-million dollar deals with two of the largest publishers (Mcgraw-Hill and Pearson) with more publishers bringing their Textbooks to the app in the coming months.
2. With the acquisition of Inkling Apple will be able to offer students the option to | Read | their textbooks in standard ebook form using the features of iBooks; Or they will be able to | Interact | with their Textbooks using new exclusive features that have been designed by Inkling that enable readers to interact with pictures, graph

If you're looking for an inexpensive, but beautifully enhanced iBook, check out:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/san-francisco-a-photo-book/id432034564?mt=11&ls=1

(open the link on your iPad, it doesn't work on desktop iTunes)
I love the coffee-table photobook format and happy to see someone bringing it to the iBookstore.

... and still no 'real' night mode reading option .

I will not make the full switch from the Kindle App till this happens.

...and the accessability mode 'cheat' does not count. It's not the same.

Move the search bar to make it easier to swipe between collections.

Publishers are looking for an easy way to mix video with words and pictures for consumption on iOS devices. Direct to iPad delivery for mobile consumption also by-passes the iTunes/app ecosystem.

Looks like iBooks will become the target player for delivery.

http://blog.bitmenu.com/2011/04/direct-to-ipad-delivery-of-ebookspdf.html