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According to the iBookstore Publisher Support, they require Chinese books with right to left or vertical text in EPUB 3 format. So far I could not find any ePub editor capable to do so, and failed to delivered my book with iTunes Producer. I wonder if anyone have successfully created any Chinese Book that met the requirements? If so, which App did you use? Please share with me. I've been looking for this for way too long......
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Have you asked on the Adobe InDesign forums? I think that app is one that might be used by people doing vertical format and they may have figured out the epub translation problem.
Have you asked on the Adobe InDesign forums? I think that app is one that might be used by people doing vertical format and they may have figured out the epub translation problem.
Thank you, I will go check it out.
PS See if this helps:
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2012/08/writing-epub-3-samples-of-fixed-and.ht ml
Thank you, Tom. InDesign is the answer. I have successfully upload my Chinese book epub files and everything to Apple as required (Finally, waited for more than 8 months). Now I just hope there won't be any other obstacle. Thank you again for your help.
My first Chinese book is finally on the ibookstore. Thanks for iBookstore Publisher Support. It's so good to see that Chinese is officially supported by Apple. Now I just wish the ibookstores on all the countries that actually use Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, etc.) will open soon.
This is the book: 《台北殺人魔（Psycho Justice）》
Very nice!
Were there any special tricks you had to learn to get it to work right using InDesign?
Yes, the trick is do not use any Chinese character when you edit metadatas in InDesign. Book title, author name, etc. Those Chinese characters will cause errors when uploading through iTunes Connect. Also, do not use Chinese ePub file names for your Asset and Preview files. Input your Chinese Book title only in iTunes Connect.
Hope to see many Chinese books soon. And more iBookstores.
That is fantastic news Epicsword! And great tips.
I am checking it out now.
How did you proof it ... did you use Readium? Or some other epub 3-savvy app?
Or did you just use iBooks and the iBook proofer thing ..
Anne-Marie Concepcion
co-host, InDesignSecrets.com
It's very simple. Just upload it through iTunes Producer. If you succeed, it is proofed. If you fail, ITC will show you some error messages which you have no ideal what they are about.
I tried to open my ePub files with my wife's iphone 4 to see if they are ok. But even if they look okay on the phone, it still may not be good enough for ITC. So just upload it, and say something nice to your ITC. Eventually, it will pass. Good luck.
Ok, here is how I did it.
It's a step by step guide about how to make and upload a Chinese book to iTunes Connect. I wrote it in Chinese since it's about Chinese books. Hope it will help.
About Chinese book and ePub 3.0
