Creating an iPhone Book Application

Question

I have experience creating iphone applications and now I would like to create an iphone book application. Browsing the category of books in iTunes, it seems that there is a standard format for creating these applications, but a Google search for creating an application for iphone does not yield any useful results. This type of application is also not covered in any of the iPhone development books I've seen.

Is there a standard way to create these book applications? Or is it just copying text - is it some kind of format (pdf, txt, html?), And then recording the processing of the api document? It seems that apis already exists for this. Can someone point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The upcoming standard format is ePub. See http://www.epubbooks.com and others. It is supported by Adobe and Sony. There is a very good free ePub reader for iPhone / iPod Touch called Stanza. From Stanza you can open books from websites. Or you can download them through the appropriate application on your Mac. Thousands of books are available in this format, both paid and free.

Adobe InDesign supports the creation of ePubs. There are also some free apps, but the ones I could find were not yet ripe. There are also some online tools. See the stanza website (how_to_create_epub) for a review.

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