Thread: Apple-Booklamp: a third front in the war?
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Old 08-06-2014, 07:15 AM   #11
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The reason you need iBooks is because a lot of the eBooks sold by Apple won't work with any other software.
Well, Apple is very upfront sbout it: iBook format isn't epub.

It is derived from epub but they embraced and extended it to meet their needs. And iBooks Author ebook output is intended solely for reading on Apple hardware. Also clearly stated upfront in the iBooks Author EULA.

Apple's iBook is as much epub as Amazon's Mojito FIRE OS is Android. Which is to say, not at all. It works for them; they *have* taken half of Nook's peak market share. If they improve the iBookstore they might grab the rest...
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