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waynn · 05-28-2013, 07:36 PM

I've been using Calibre for a year now with awesome results when converting from MOBI to EPUB. I recently ran into an issue that I can't figure out how to fix, however. We have a book that's written by two authors (Jack and Jill). When I create the MOBI, I set the <dc:creator> attribute in the story.opf file to "Jack Smith and Jill Lee". Calibre imports it, but when it exports the EPUB file and I upload it to iBooks, it only gets one of the authors. I unzipped the EPUB file and it looks like there are two <dc:creator> fields created (one for each author).

I saw another thread where Kovid specifically said this was how the EPUB file format defines authors, so my question is, am I doing something wrong with uploading it to iBooks? How do I get iBooks to put both authors on one line, versus having one marked as the primary author?

05-28-2013, 07:36 PM	#1
waynn Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2013 Device: Kindle	Outputting EPUB for iBooks with multiple authors I've been using Calibre for a year now with awesome results when converting from MOBI to EPUB. I recently ran into an issue that I can't figure out how to fix, however. We have a book that's written by two authors (Jack and Jill). When I create the MOBI, I set the <dc:creator> attribute in the story.opf file to "Jack Smith and Jill Lee". Calibre imports it, but when it exports the EPUB file and I upload it to iBooks, it only gets one of the authors. I unzipped the EPUB file and it looks like there are two <dc:creator> fields created (one for each author). I saw another thread where Kovid specifically said this was how the EPUB file format defines authors, so my question is, am I doing something wrong with uploading it to iBooks? How do I get iBooks to put both authors on one line, versus having one marked as the primary author?