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iBook Author projects lost...

I used iBook Author in the past and had published two books. Unfortunately, I can't find iBook Author and my projects on my Mac. Is there a way to get my books from the store and use these for example with Pages and work on these again?

Posted on Nov 25, 2021 4:04 AM

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Nov 25, 2021 10:35 AM in response to Nocki.u.Yogie

Nocki.u.Yogie wrote:

BTW - how can I publish and edit books without iBook Author now? Can anybody please give me a link or tutorial on it?

You will need a different publishing paradigm such as Pages (with muguy's link). Pages can still publish to the Apple Books store. See Apple's Publish your book with Pages article.

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Nov 25, 2021 6:05 AM in response to Nocki.u.Yogie

Do you have iBooks Author (and your projects) backed up to a TIme Machine drive from which you can restore them? Another backup of your .iba files on different media?


I hope you realize that Pages v10.1 and later are not iBooks Author by another name, and substantial .iba content, depending on what you have done in it, may not map that functionality to Pages when the .iba files are opened in it.


Your published books at the Apple Books store were in either in PDF or EPUB format, and neither can be reverse-engineered to a .iba document format, nor opened by Pages. See the link on this Pages below Related Article.

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Nov 25, 2021 9:13 AM in response to Nocki.u.Yogie

As said before I do not have anything other than that what is at the Apple Book Store and in my iBooks App, but that is what I retrieved from the store as I would have been just a reader and not the author.


BTW - how can I publish and edit books without iBook Author now? Can anybody please give me a link or tutorial on it?

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