Psychentist, that method works fine for some books. For example, and somewhat ironically, the free iPhone User Guide opens perfectly, and everything is displayed. But a novel that I read on my iPad shows only the Table of Contents in Digital Editions -- the pages are completely blank. Other books show text, but not illustrations. And another book, Canon 5d Mark III Experience, will not even give Digital Editions as an option when I Ctrl-click "Open With" -- the only choice present is iTunes. So, I changed the extension (as suggested in an earlier post here) to .epub. It would then open in ADE if I dragged it to the ADE app. But all that appears, again, is the TOC -- the pages are blank.
Sorry, Apple has effectively blocked this for anything labelled iBook. But WHY??? The app is free on iOS. They are making their $$$ by selling the books, not the app. Nobody -- NOBODY -- is going to buy an iPad or an iPhone just to get the iBook app. This makes no sense whatever. Is it just a lack of attention? Or, it's not where they are making their bucks so they simply don't care? It's hard to imagine that a company as large and as profitable as Apple is willing to **** off so many people over something as stupid as this.
I've been a loyal Apple devotee for years. But it is frustrating as **** that there is simply no direct way to communicate with the company. NONE. I can't imagine that anyone at Apple is paying attention to these discussions. Or, if they are, why is there no response? Like, "we hear you, we're working on it". Or even, "We can't do it, because...".
