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Is it possible to parse and read iba books in a iOS app?

Kostia Kim
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  • I looking for this answer too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9309670/is-it-possible-to-embed-an-ebook-created-with-ibooks-author-inside-an-app – mr.octobor Apr 16 '12 at 17:06
  • I try to read file from iBooks Author like epub file. but I have terrible page layout. – mr.octobor Apr 16 '12 at 17:07

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This is probably impossible without a lot of reverse engineering. .iba files are based on epub as mr.octobor suggests, but the layout and rendering isn't achieved through normal html, css and javascript as in epub. Apple uses a lot of proprietary code in .iba, particularly to build the widgets.

Baldur Bjarnason laments this fact on this post, where you can get a better understanding of the situation: http://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/the-ibooks-builtin-widgets/

The piece by Daniel Glazman linked in that article is useful as well: http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2012/01/20/iBooks-Author-a-nice-tool-but

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