Can ibooks be played on Android devices?

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Can ibooks be played on Android devices?

We purchased an Android Tablet for my Husband to read books on. He reads a lot due to being almost totally deaf. (Cannot hear TV.) I have quite a lot of iBooks and would like to be able to transfer them from iPad (it is too heavy to hold for reading) to his Android Tablet. I have an iPod Touch but it is too small.

I am looking for a way to transfer our iTunes Books to the Monster 7. The Google eBooks transfer just fine. I have purchased a Synctunes program that is supposed to work but I have not been able to get it to work. The books go to the SDCard and I cannot get to them. Any suggestions?

iPod touch, Windows 7, Cannot open iTunes Store

Posted on Aug 19, 2014 4:57 PM

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cleopete

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Dec 8, 2016 11:06 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks, glad I never spent money on an iBook, and never will.

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darkope

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Mar 25, 2016 1:02 AM in response to Jsist

Unfortunately, we can't download ibooks by apple from Google play because apple dudes didn't make it available for Android market. On the other hand, we are able to install google play books on ipad & iphone and sync all books purchased on that marketplace regardless of all that DRM geek stuff, that should be transparent for any common mortal. That's exactly what I mean when i try explaining what does mean a close technology.I say it without any desire to be controversial, to say the truth.

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Jul 13, 2017 8:51 PM in response to darkope

Exactly and that's the same reason why I won't buy another apple device again... My current iPad will be the last one.

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vihitk

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Jan 15, 2015 9:22 PM in response to Jsist

You can try out amazon ebook app "Kindle". It works great with iDevices, android and windows. And amazon's ebook store's pretty sweet too

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 20, 2014 3:23 AM in response to Jsist

Most paid for books from the iBooksstore have DRM and can only be read using the iBooks app. Android is not possible for them. The same goes for any books in the interactive .ibooks format, even without DRM.

Books in the epub format without DRM (usually free books) can be read on any device with the appropriate ereader software.

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Jsist Author

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Aug 20, 2014 8:24 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Not what I wanted to hear, but I suspected that there was something that kept ibooks from opening. I had tried several different readers. Thanks for your response.

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Jun 9, 2016 4:39 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Does Ibooks author output in ePub?

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Tom Gewecke

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Jun 9, 2016 5:23 AM in response to dsfdghjkl

iBooks Author can produce .epub format if you start from one of the two special epub templates provided by Apple. The other templates can only produce .ibooks format. Pages can export to .epub format generally.

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