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I used iBook Author in the past and had published two books. Unfortunately, I can't find iBook Author and my projects on my Mac. Is there a way to get my books from the store and use these for example with Pages and work on these again?
Nocki.u.Yogie wrote:
BTW - how can I publish and edit books without iBook Author now? Can anybody please give me a link or tutorial on it?
You will need a different publishing paradigm such as Pages (with muguy's link). Pages can still publish to the Apple Books store. See Apple's Publish your book with Pages article.
Do you have iBooks Author (and your projects) backed up to a TIme Machine drive from which you can restore them? Another backup of your .iba files on different media?
I hope you realize that Pages v10.1 and later are not iBooks Author by another name, and substantial .iba content, depending on what you have done in it, may not map that functionality to Pages when the .iba files are opened in it.
Your published books at the Apple Books store were in either in PDF or EPUB format, and neither can be reverse-engineered to a .iba document format, nor opened by Pages. See the link on this Pages below Related Article.
As said before I do not have anything other than that what is at the Apple Book Store and in my iBooks App, but that is what I retrieved from the store as I would have been just a reader and not the author.
BTW - how can I publish and edit books without iBook Author now? Can anybody please give me a link or tutorial on it?
Nocki.u.Yogie wrote:
- how can I publish and edit books without iBook Author now? Can anybody please give me a link or tutorial on it?
See if this helps: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211136
If you have MS Word v16.31 or later, it will allow you to open a PDF and convert it to Word .docx, which can subsequently be opened in Pages.
I do have nothing left on any backup or so. Just what is at the Apple Book Store.
iBook Author projects lost...
