iBooks region change

This is utterly absurd.

I Live in France, am English and don't speak/read French too well.

So I can't buy a book in English?

There must be millions in a similar situation.

I have a similar situation with apps, although fortunately most - by no means all - apps are available in most countries.

This needs addressing.

In the USA, I do not need to change the iBook store country to buy books in another language. Just search for the author, and there will be a language pulldown in the top right of the window above the list of categories. Apple could make this easier by having foreign language categories, but it isn't impossible.

How can I change the region in iBooks?

I don't think he is asking for that. Sometimes we just wanted to change store to see what other stores has to offer, or as a developer/author, know how our apps/books are doing in other countries.

In iTunes, you can simply click a flag below to change region, but this does not appear to be the case for iBooks.

It is based on your iTunes account. If your account is setup for US, it will go to US directly. Same for other countries.

I don't think you can change the country/region in the iBookstore itself.

Well I am in Australia and signed up with an Australian address etc and I can only access German material! Any ideas on that once?

My problem is similar. I followed a book title to the UK store to buy a book that is not available in Australia. But after finding the book, I was not allowed to buy it - not having a UK account - and worse, could not switch back to Australia!

So, you can switch regions accidentally - as I discovered. But you won't be able to use that region unless you have an account there. And you won't be able to switch back, except perhaps by finding a book title that is not available in your home region but is available in your preferred region!

Given that it can happen by accident - sure it must be able to happen otherwise! Any ideas???

Try this

Open the Settings App and go to iTunes and App Store preferences.

Select your appleID and sign in - once you have done that you can change the

region.

That fixed my problem. But I don't know if you can then set up an account in another region's iBook store.

Have you or anyone else tried this?

Hi, I recently sign up only to ans ur question

This may littl bit strange but worth to try..

I found this accidentally:

I have path installed, somday my friend share that she is currently reading book from us store, then i opened it, my ipad show "this book not available in your country, wuld u like to change reg?" I choose ok/confirm, and finaly i can browse us ibook strore!!

I'm currently registered from Indonesia, using ipad 4 with iOS 6.1.2

Hopfully this may help you all frends :D

Thanks David, this worked for me. I had followed a "not available in Australia, change region" option and suddenly was stuck with the US store. I re-confirmed my apple ID and region through settings and it worked. Thanks again!

But did u fake an adress and state？does it matter if i use the real adress of my country but fake a us state

It's beyond absurd - I travel ALL the time, a bit like that horrible term "digital nomad".

In the 21st century people do that. I work on projects internationally. So much for the modern age.