audio book in iBooks stops when iphone screen turns off

Something's not right here... You don't listen to audio books in iBooks. You listen to them through the music app.

I agree with ^KiltedTime, but I will also say as a quick fix, you should set the iPhone to not turn the screen off, or just tap it every few minutes. I do that when I'm listening to NFL games on the NFL app.

Do you have any other details so we can help you more?

The iBooks app was not created to allow you to listen while the screen was off since it was made to read. Unfortunately that is the case. The only way to listen to the Audio Book without the audio stopping when the screen turns off is to listen through the music app on your phone. I'm not sure if books downloaded from iBooks are automatically in the audiobooks section of the music app, but that is the only way for now.

It has to be iOS 5. That is the only option that seem viable. Did changing the screen sleep options help the problem for now? Apple should have an update sometime soon... well eventually.

I have the same problem, this applies only to enhanced books, which contain video and audio sections, these are totally dfferent to an Audiobook hence they play through iBooks. This has only happened since the update.

You cannot actually buy audiobooks in the iBook store. You can use voiceover to read your iBooks aloud to you, but that is not the same as purchasing a book, read by someone, and recorded in mp3 or another audio file format.

Voiceover has nothing to do with what you are experiencing. Since iBooks, by design, is only active when the screen is active, voiceover cuts out when iBooks itself is idled by the iOS when the screen blanks (voiceover is part of the accessability settings).

Real audio books, like those purchased through iTunes, play in the background fine because the Music app has the ability to continue running in the background

hmm, I stand, somewhat, corrected. Supposedly you can get iBooks with voiceover to auto-turn pages and continue reading by:

from macrumors.com forum post by user LeNex:

"1. Turn VoiceOver on. Unless you're using it all the time, I suggest going to the settings pane and choose Accessibility, VoiceOver then check 'triple click of home to turn VoiceOver on or off' or whatever the option is. Can't check right now as I am using my iPhone to post this and if I come out of Safari this text will disappear.

2. Open iBooks and the book you want. Triple click the home button to tum VoiceOver on. It will say 'VoiceOver on'.

3. Place two fingers on the screen. Make sure they're fingers held next to each other. Flick those fingers downwards in a smooth quick motion. You may have to practice to get it right.

4. VoiceOver will begin to read the page from the top, and when it gets to the bottom, it will turn the page for you and carry on speaking the next page. And so on. To stop it just tap on the screen anywhere with one finger (VoiceOver will most likely read whatever is under your finger, then stop. )

5. Unless you want to carry on using VoiceOver gsetures for everything else you do with your ipad, remember to triple click to turn it off again when done."

But, once the screen display goes off, I still think it will stop, as iBooks itself is idled (what's the point of keeping an ereader app fully active when the screen has gone blank?).

Sorry you are so wrong, I didn't say it was an Audiobook, they are enhanced iBooks, which have Audio as an enhancement, which before the last 2 updates worked when the screen was off, now they don't, they are not voiceovers as you say that is a totally different function, as an example look up Chris Ryan, you will find some of his books are enhanced versios these are the ones that have and Audio book attached.

Wrote my reply whilst you done yours.

And you will notice I was not replying to any of your posts either.