Q: iBook PDF export to EPUB conversion
Converting PDF to EPUB seems to be common problems for many us, trying to get our iBooks Author content to the Kindle format. IBooks Author only exporting Text only and PDF formats, leaves many of us with few conversion options. Has anyone out there had any success with this conversion process? I understand that PDF exports from IBooks Author will lose many of the interactive features of an iBooks project, but I am really only hoping for the text and images to be reasonably recreated in a format acceptable on Kindles. I don't want to recreate my iBook project and future updates in another app (Pages), that's too much revision and conversion work. I have investigated the Calibre App but the developer admits PDFs are hard to successfully convert to EPUB or other Kindle supported formats. It seems like a future version of iBook Author could generate a basic EPUB export (only scrolling text and images perserved). As an eBook content provider, not being able to participate with Kindle sales, means extinction for many of us, and therefore, probably failure for Apple's iBook Store.
iBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5), iBook Author 2.0
Posted on Mar 20, 2014 10:33 AM