With the arrival of iOS 12 and MacOS 10.14 "Mojave" the Apple iBooks app disappears to make way for "Books". The user interface is completely changed, and for authors, a conformity of the works is imposed. The application wins certainly not in ergonomics, we feel a desire to put commercial emphasis on the books in the interface, and Access to updates gets complicated.
Unfortunately still no red dot on the icon when an update arrives. Needed, on the one hand, to be informed by any means (What I do in this blog), then perform the 4 Steps needed to access updates : first a tap on your face icon,
… then opening of three successive windows :
Easy, isn't it ?
[Update] Warning : It appears, In addition, that updates are sometimes not offered at all, iOS/iPadOS, and especially on macOS ! In this case, the only solution is to delete the book and download it again, you will not have to pay it again. Thank you Apple !
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Hello Francis,
Totally agree with you on this failed update of Books. The worst is in the management of .pdf that , for those who have built their family file in iBooks , doesn't even allow their content to be hidden in iCloud, losing all the benefits of screen time controls. Focusing on selling books torpedoes the interest of the app.
Sincerely . Daniel