Is the Apple "Yellow Submarine" e-book available anywhere?

[Robotech_Master]

I downloaded the multimedia "Yellow Submarine" e-book from iBooks while it was available, but I've found now that it's not anymore. (I had to resort to digital sorcery to rescue it from my old iPad for reading on my new one, in fact.)

I was just wondering: is this e-book still available for new purchase anywhere? I've tried googling, but all I turn up are articles from 2011 talking about how it's free from iTunes.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Robotech_Master

I downloaded the multimedia "Yellow Submarine" e-book from iBooks while it was available, but I've found now that it's not anymore. (I had to resort to digital sorcery to rescue it from my old iPad for reading on my new one, in fact.)

I was just wondering: is this e-book still available for new purchase anywhere? I've tried googling, but all I turn up are articles from 2011 talking about how it's free from iTunes.

Why would you need to take it off of your old iPad? Doesn't iBooks store books that you've bought from them in your account?

In any case, here's an article about it from 2014, with a link to it on the iBook store--I don't know if the link is valid or not, because I can't view it without iTunes. http://ebookroundup.com/the-beatles-yellow-submarine/

Shari

[tomsem]

Interesting. I used to have that book, but I suspect that it is not compatible with latest version of iBooks. I would need to check on my iPod Touch, which should have a compatible version. But don't have that handy.

Aren't multimedia ebooks fantastic? They are the future! Except when they are not.

[Robotech_Master]

Originally Posted by shalym

Why would you need to take it off of your old iPad? Doesn't iBooks store books that you've bought from them in your account?

In any case, here's an article about it from 2014, with a link to it on the iBook store--I don't know if the link is valid or not, because I can't view it without iTunes. http://ebookroundup.com/the-beatles-yellow-submarine/

For whatever reason, it's no longer on the store at all, including in my iBooks account (though other books I'd downloaded still were). If you followed the link in that article, you'd find it pops up an "Item not available" message.

Originally Posted by tomsem

Interesting. I used to have that book, but I suspect that it is not compatible with latest version of iBooks. I would need to check on my iPod Touch, which should have a compatible version. But don't have that handy.

Actually, it's still perfectly compatible. I opened it on my iPad Mini 2 just fine. It's just that it's not available anymore.

Aren't multimedia ebooks fantastic? They are the future! Except when they are not.

Indeed.