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iBook Lessons: Book samples and rookie mistakes

by Erica Sadun (May 23rd, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. Talk about rookie mistakes! We finally discovered the reason the iPad-only iBooks Author version of our Mountain Lion ebook got stuck on its way to release: we hadn't submitted a custom sample along with the full ...

iBook Lessons: Using Book Proofer to preview EPUB files

by Erica Sadun (May 16th, 2012)

iBooks Author is an amazing tool for laying out and publishing ebooks to iTunes. Unfortunately, the application creates books that are only readable on iPads. You trade off fantastic page design (via Apple's proprietary .iBooks format) for a much smaller potential reading audience. When you ...

You're Our Editor: iBooks Author or ePub for the iBooks store?

by Erica Sadun (May 6th, 2012)

Normally we turn to the TUAW Brain Trust for your opinions about hot topics in the news and your predictions about the future of tech. Today, we're switching things up. Instead of asking about where things are going, we're asking you about strategy. Here's the situation: Like many authors, TUAW ...

iBooks Author owns your format, not your content

by Erica Sadun (Jan 24th, 2012)

There's been a lot of heat and fury surrounding the iBooks Author terms and conditions ever since the service was introduced last week. To boil the controversy down to basics, Apple has introduced a private protocol extension that takes EPUB to the next generation. And then they created a business ...

Stanza iOS app updated, but Amazon is abandoning it

by Chris Rawson (Nov 10th, 2011)

Stanza was one of the first apps I downloaded when I got an iPhone. It pre-dated Amazon's release of the Kindle iOS app and Apple's own iBooks app, so for awhile Stanza was the best option out there for reading eBooks on an iPhone. Not long after it released the official Kindle app, Amazon ...

How Apple iBooks could compete with Amazon's Kindle in the ebook space (Updated)

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2011)

Update: The original version of this post cited a $99 fee to set up publishing for books via the iBookstore, which was incorrect; while the developer program $99 fee applies to books-as-apps, it does not apply to iBooks themselves. TUAW was contacted by Apple's media team, and they told us that ...

Tip: iBooks can open EPUB books directly

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2011)

The latest version of iBooks (or possibly one of the previous versions -- we're not sure when this change went in) includes a helpful little update in it: iBooks now recognizes EPUB files, which means it can open those files directly from anywhere on your iPhone, from your email to a DropBox ...

iWork Update 9.0.4 brings ePub file support to Pages, fixes bugs

by Steven Sande (Aug 26th, 2010)

A new update to iWork is providing some fixes to bugs (primarily with tables) in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, but also provides a new export option that makes Pages documents compatible with iBooks. The iWork 9.0.4 update is recommended for anyone using iWork 9.0 - 9.0.3. The fixes for Keynote ...

How to publish an Apple iBook

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2010)

We've covered the issue tangentially before, but in case our guides on EPUB and the process itself haven't been enough to inspire you would-be authors to self-publish your book in iBooks, Greg Mills has a step-by-step guide just for you. Of course, the hardest part may be actually writing the book, ...

A quick tutorial on how to read PDF-formatted ebooks in iBooks

by Steven Sande (Aug 5th, 2010)

When me and my fellow TUAW bloggers Erica Sadun and Mike Grothaus recently had our collaborative effort "Taking Your iPad to the Max" published by Apress in both ebook and printed format, I wanted to make sure that I had a copy of the book on my iPad so I could show friends and prospective buyers ...

The iPad and eBook piracy

by Sang Tang (May 18th, 2010)

In the week following the launch of the iPad, six of the top ten selling business-related paperbacks saw a significant spike in unauthorized downloads on BitTorrent, according to BitTorrent news blog TorrentFreak. This cohort saw average increases of 78 percent over the week prior to the iPad ...

International iBookstores opening on May 28th in most countries

by Steven Sande (May 7th, 2010)

When iPads fall into the eager hands of Apple fans in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on May 28th, the iBookstore and Apple's free iBooks e-reader app may be there. Apple has confirmed that iBooks and the iBookstore will be available in all of the ...

TUAW reader braintrust: Filling up your iBookShelf

by Erica Sadun (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Let's face it. iBook offerings are, at least for the moment, pretty limited. They're also on the slightly pricey side for anyone who emptied their piggy bank on a new iPad. Even those public libraries that offer ePub lending aren't set up to make those titles available for iPad reading. You ...

iPad 101: User Guides and other helpful resources

by Erica Sadun (Apr 4th, 2010)

You've bought your iPad. Congratulations! So are you ready to learn all the ways you can get the most from your new purchase? Here's a quick run-down of some indispensable resources as you're getting up to speed with your new purchase. Read the manuals: The iPad User Guide (pdf) provides an ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: How can I convert my pdfs to ePub?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 2nd, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, With the release of the iPad and as a grad student with a stock pile of PDF's of review books, whats the best, free-est option for converting them into ePub format for the iPad. Kisses & Snuggles, Your nephew Will ...