How to get french book in iBook

Anyone here could help us search the store for a specific language?

I suspect you will have more luck with the Kindle app.

When I go to the iBooks store, there is a part of the first page that allows me to get books in a variety of languages, Spanish, French, German and even Chinese. Why this particular selection of languages, I have no idea (are there no books in Welsh?). Note that one must scroll down the page in order to see this panel, which is headed Quick Links. I have been unable to find any other way to search fo specific language publications, which, indeed, is a grave omission.

Why this particular selection of languages, I have no idea (are there no books in Welsh?).

Apple has to negotiate rights to distribute ebooks via the ibookstore, and presumably they have some priorities for doing that regarding various languages. If they don't yet have what you want, try the Kindle or Nook apps. If nobody has what you want, you will just have to wait until someone thinks it is worth the effort to do the legal work needed.

etdashou wrote:
All I'm asking here is to be able to search for a specific language and in bonus if we could specify also a country...
Isn't something normal when we look at books in a Library?

Not in an American bookstore, which is essentially what you are doing. If you know the author and/or title, there are some french books there. Unfortunately, most of those +en vérsion originale+ are from Project Gutenberg and are poorly formatted. Currently it is optimized for English authors of popular books.

You can always find and download files manually.

You should send feedback to Apple pour les dire que l'anglais n'est pas la seule langue du monde.

On the other hand, you could look at this an an opportunity. Ever wanted to be a publisher?

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Why this particular selection of languages, I have no idea (are there no books in Welsh?).

Apple has to negotiate rights to distribute ebooks via the ibookstore, and presumably they have some priorities for doing that regarding various languages. If they don't yet have what you want, try the Kindle or Nook apps. If nobody has what you want, you will just have to wait until someone thinks it is worth the effort to do the legal work needed.{quote}

No, the thing is that there are books in languages other than those listed, yet no way of searching by language is offered.

For example, the languages I am presented with are French, German, Spanish, and Chinese, with the page itself in English and the books presented there also in English. There seems to be no way that I can search for books written in Dutch, though there are plenty such books. If I search for "leeuw" then I am presented with "De Leeuw van Vlaanderen" by Hendrik Coscience, and it even lists the language as "Dutch, Flemish" (Conscience was a Dutch-speaking Belgian); together with this title, the "customers also bought" section suggests five other books written in Dutch (and going to any of these reveals more, of course). So I am able to find a book in Dutch (or any other language) if I know its title or author, but I am unable to find a list of books in a particular language.

The OP was quite correct. This is a shortcoming and it has nothing to do with distribution rights as is suggested.

So I am able to find a book in Dutch (or any other language) if I know its title or author, but I am unable to find a list of books in a particular language.

Yes, I misunderstood your point, thanks for clarification. Do you also find that Dutch books which are not free ones are available? For the Gutenberg stuff I guess one would have to use the search page on their normal website to search by language.

I have not yet found a Dutch book that must be paid for, but that might simply be because of the titles that I have searched — as it is not possible to search by language, I am unable to say if there are titles that require payment.

Gutenberg, if I recall correctly, does allow search by language as part of their own Advanced Search option.