Accio iBooks!
All seven Harry Potter novels now available on iBooks
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New "digitally enhanced" editions of all seven novels in the Harry Potter series are now available on Apple's iBooks store for $9.99 each.
iBooks for iOS and macOS
Now in China
Apple Music, iTunes Movies, iBooks head to China
Apple has announced today that Apple Music, iTunes Movies and iBooks services are now available in China.
Listen up
Listen to your audiobooks in iBooks on iOS 8.4
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Apple has released a major iBooks update as part of iOS 8.4, bringing support for audiobooks to the iPhone and iPad, as well as iBooks Author content support to the iPhone.
Read more books
iBooks update gives authors exciting new tools
Authors can now use iBooks for pre-orders without assets, and Link Maker for convenient sharing everywhere. There's also some new pre-publish rules for Multi-Touch books.
Mastering iBooks
How to sync iBooks data between iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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In addition to letting you buy and read ebooks, iBooks lets you make notes, highlight text, save bookmarks, and even organize your books and PDFs into collections. iBooks syncs all this data between all your iPhones, iPads, and Macs so you see the same thing across all your devices. However, if you find that iBooks isn't syncing your data like it should, here's how to enable it! How...
Settlement
Apple's $450 million e-book settlement approved
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U.S. District Judge Denise Cote had approved Apple's agreement to settle its case where the iBooks-seller was accused of conspiring with five different publishers to raise e-book pricing for customers. The $450 million settlement had received preliminary approval back in August, and now the judge has fully approved it asking Apple to pay $400 million to as many as 23 million iBooks...
iTunes & App Store Tips
How to view your iTunes and App Store gift history
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As most folks already know, you can easily gift the gift of apps, books, movies, and more right from your iPhone or iPad. You can just as easily receive them from others as well. Have you ever wanted to take a look back at what items you've gifted to others, or make sure they actually redeemed them? If the answer is yes, all you need is your iPhone or iPad and your Apple ID and we can...
The best Mac apps for reading ebooks
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The Mac ebook software market doesn't start and stop with iBooks. Though it's a perfectly useful app, there are a lot of other choices from other developers, and some of them have features iBooks doesn't. Here's a roundup of some of the best ebook reader apps available for the Mac. BookReader Support for common formats including ePub, FB2, DOC, RTF, RTFx, xHTML, Webarchive and...
Vector 51
The ongoing challenge of ebooks
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Vector is a news and analysis show focusing on the biggest stories, hottest trends, and most important issues in technology, past, present, and future. On this week's show, Serenity Caldwell of Macworld joins Rene to talk about ebooks, how the creation and publication process has evolved, current features and limitations, tools, workflows, and formats, iBooks vs. Amazon, and where...
Apple lawsuit
Apple reaches e-books settlement
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Apple has secured a preliminary approval from the courts for its e-book settlement of $450 million. The class action law suit was filed against Apple on behalf of consumers and 33 states alleging that the iBooks-seller had conspired with five publishers to set e-book prices high, hurting consumers. The case case was raised in July 2013 when the Department of Justice accused Apple of...