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KevinH · 07-12-2023, 10:36 AM

Unfortunately, Apple Books is not a compliant epub3 reader and has been pushing their own extensions from the very start. Based on ebook sales figures they are a very minor player in the industry. When you add to the fact that their DRM was never broken, many users stayed away as there was no way to move their purchases to another platform (ie from Apple to Linux or Android).

If you want an epub3 compliant reader on iOS then use the BlueFire Reader. The Kobo reader for kepub works reasonably well too.

If you want to pm me a link to an epub3 that is unmodified and works in iOS Books alongside a modified version that does not work, I would be happy to take a look. But short of that, Sigil's goal is to make epub3 compliant epubs, not necessarily Books compliant ones. Complain to Apple but be prepared for no fixes or changes probably ever.

KevinH

07-12-2023, 10:36 AM	#13
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,911 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Unfortunately, Apple Books is not a compliant epub3 reader and has been pushing their own extensions from the very start. Based on ebook sales figures they are a very minor player in the industry. When you add to the fact that their DRM was never broken, many users stayed away as there was no way to move their purchases to another platform (ie from Apple to Linux or Android). If you want an epub3 compliant reader on iOS then use the BlueFire Reader. The Kobo reader for kepub works reasonably well too. If you want to pm me a link to an epub3 that is unmodified and works in iOS Books alongside a modified version that does not work, I would be happy to take a look. But short of that, Sigil's goal is to make epub3 compliant epubs, not necessarily Books compliant ones. Complain to Apple but be prepared for no fixes or changes probably ever. KevinH Last edited by KevinH; 07-12-2023 at 10:41 AM.