After reading this post you will know why I prefer this title rather than “New fonts in iBooks 1.5″.

Please see the snapshot comparison, iBooks 1.5 added four new fonts while lost three old fonts, altogether it added only one font.

New added fonts are,

• Athelas
• Charter
• Iowan
• Seravek

These fonts we can not find anymore,

• Baskerville
• Cochin
• Verdana

On Dec 7, Apple updated iBooks to 1.5.

In a general view, there’re some exciting new features in this main release, such as night mode, full screen mode, and it also provides some new fonts and a new style of default cover.

Tough this update is better than previous ones, there’s no much more improvement in this release. Night mode is just a screen color reversal, and full screen mode is just a margin cut, these are very easy and basic functions in Apple’s powerful graphical OS. (Of course, they will make better reading experience)
The new fonts is just a replacement of some old fonts.

But in the technical view of our ePub makers, the key feature, compatibility with ePub standard, has nothing improved. iBooks still doesn’t support multi fonts, embeded fonts, and many other advanced ePub features. These things are really things should be considered by Apple, if they want iBooks to be a professional ebook reader instead of a novel reader.

Now, after several months work, ePub Maker has been updated to 1.65.
Most found bugs have been fixed in this release., after a month’s sale, there’s no new bug reported from customers.

This may be the final version of 2011, that means there would be no new release before Christmas.We hope all ePub Maker (standard edition) users update to this version, of course, this update is totally free.

We are sending informing letters with download link address to customers day by day, if you have not received, please contact us.