why isn't there arabic books in iBooks store ??

Hi guys,

I made a search and I found some Arabic books on iBooks. You can search: ويكيليكس or by the publisher's name: OWNI and you'll find the book I'm talking about.
In the beginning I thought the text is posted as pictures -since iBooks doesn't support Arabic- but it's all written as a text that you can select and highlight with all the features that English books have -except the dictionary-.
Does iBooks support Arabic? I don't know, but apparently, you can publish in Arabic
Thanks,
Abdullah.

Ultimately it's down to the publishers/copyrightholders to make their content available to Apple for them to sell in a particular country and/or language - without them granting Apple licenses to sell their content, Apple can't sell it.

You can leave feedback for Apple here http://www.apple.com/feedback - if there are a few books in particular that you are interested in then you could try http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

iLaith wrote:

thank you , but i think that Apple doesn't support arabic books !

There are in fact several languages which the iBookstore does not support:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/12/ibookstore-language-support.html

iLaith wrote:

thank you but i prefer iBooks reader

That's fine, but if it is more important to you to be using iBooks than to read the book you want, then it's quite possible you will never be able to read many books on your iPad.

iLaith wrote:

i think that Apple will support Arabic books soon .... am sure !

I hope you are right, but given the extremely limited improvements made in iBooks over the last year, I am not at all optimistic.

When you can't find something in the iBookstore, then try the other reader apps like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Googlebooks. They might have what you want.

abdsyn wrote:

I made a search and I found some Arabic books on iBooks.

Thanks for that info! The page sequencing is backwards, though, right?