[iain robinson]

Hi all

We are producing an ePUB for a bimonthly magazine we typeset in Adobe Indesign for a customer. They put them on their website behind a pay-wall, so we are not uploading via the iBookstore (although they say the majority of their readers will be using iPads). I added some metadata in Indesign and then some more in the ePUB itself but I'm surprised at how little of it is used by iBooks (or ADE for that matter).

For example, each article in the magazine has a different author and I made sure all their names were in separate <dc:creator> tags in the content.opf file. Only the first author shows up in iBooks (and ADE). The file validates with no errors. I was also hoping that, since the readers may have multiple issues of the magazine in iBooks, they could search by author or keyword to find a particular issue but that doesn't work either.

Am I missing something or is adding metadata in the file itself only done in case it becomes useful in the future (and has no real use at the moment)?

thanks,
Iain