Apple Ibooks File Format

Apple accepts two different types of book files.

Apple ibooks file format. Apple books is an app bundled with macos and ios devices used to read e books. These files are created from iba format which is the default authoring format of apple ibooks author application under macos os x. It was formerly known as ibooks but renamed with the release of macos mojave and ios 12.

They can be exported in the ibooks format as plain text documents or as pdf files. Epubs and multi touch books. Book files also known as book assets contain your work including text images interactivity and so forth.

Ebooks bought from itunes and ibooks are almost always in epub format. An epub epub file is a universal ebook standard. Epub is the default ebook format for ipad.

File extension ibooks is related to apple ibooks software and its latest e book file format. Now please feel free to download the free trial of ibook copy as below and begin to test it by yourself. The developer guarantees this software will work even ibooks or itunes gets version update.

Completed ibooks may also be published to the ibookstore using itunes producer. Ibook format is based on epub e books file format with additional formatting and optimization for ipad device. Ibooks are created with ibooks author a free book design and publishing program developed by apple.

Once an ibook has been published on itunes it can be downloaded directly to an ipad.