Supported languages
Apple Books doesn’t fully support books written in the following languages or scripts:
Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Burmese, Farsi (Persian), Hebrew, Khmer, Lao, Malay (Jawi, Arabic script), Sinhala, Tamil, Urdu.
The following languages are supported by Apple Books in both EPUB (.epub) and Multi-Touch (.ibooks) format. Languages that need advanced display features, such as vertical writing and Ruby, are only supported when using the EPUB version indicated below or later.
|
Language |
Minimum EPUB Version |
|---|---|
|
Bengali |
3 |
|
Brazilian Portuguese |
2 |
|
British English |
2 |
|
Catalan |
2 |
|
Chinese (Simplified) |
3 |
|
Chinese (Traditional) |
3 |
|
Croatian |
2 |
|
Czech |
2 |
|
Danish |
2 |
|
Dutch |
2 |
|
English |
2 |
|
Finnish |
2 |
|
French |
2 |
|
German |
2 |
|
Greek |
2 |
|
Hungarian |
2 |
|
Indonesian |
2 |
|
Italian |
2 |
|
Japanese |
3 |
|
Korean |
2 |
|
Malay |
3 |
|
Norwegian |
2 |
|
Polish |
2 |
|
Portuguese (Portugal) |
2 |
|
Romanian |
2 |
|
Russian |
2 |
|
Slovakian |
2 |
|
Spanish |
2 |
|
Swedish |
2 |
|
Thai |
2 |
|
Turkish |
2 |
|
Ukrainian |
2 |
|
Vietnamese |
2 |
Supported regions and countries
When publishing on Apple Books, please keep in mind that not all Apple services are supported in every country due to international copyright laws and agreements.
Below is a list of countries where only public domain titles are available to buyers in the Apple Store, so books published by PublishDrive will not be displayed to anyone who is located there.
Latin America & The Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Uruguay
Europe, Russia and Central Asia: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina*, Croatia, Georgia*, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kosovo*, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro*, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia*, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon*, Cape Verde, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo*, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire*, Gabon*, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco*, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda*, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia*, Zimbabwe.
Asia-Pacific: Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China mainland*, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives*, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar*, Nauru*, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga*, Vanuatu*, Vietnam.
Middle East: Afghanistan*, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq*, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya*, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
The countries marked with * do not have the Apple Books service at all.
If you want to learn more about the offered Apple Books services in each country, please check out this article.