iBook widget – is it possible?

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  ilegality · Member · Apr 12, 2014 at 9:00 am

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  Hi

  I’m going to publish an ebook on the Apple bookstore. I’d like to use Apple’s widget creator to generate a widget – showing the book with brief background and link etc – for the sidebar on my blog. Is this possible?

  I’ve searched on here and only found two posts – from some time ago – one where the person was referred to the terms of service and another where no-one replied: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ibook-widget?replies=1#post-1029734

  I can’t work out why either should be a problem. Does anyone know how I can do it or, why it’s not allowed?

  Many thanks

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  timethief · Member · Apr 12, 2014 at 4:50 pm

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  We bloggers cannot post either iframe codes or JavaScript as the software will trip the codes out to preserver security on this mulituser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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  ilegality · Member · Apr 12, 2014 at 6:25 pm

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  Ok thanks for getting back to me timethief. I guess it’s down to whether or when Apple will become a ‘trusted partner’ then…

  Unless anyone can suggest something better all I can think of in terms of a workaround is using a jpeg with a redirect to the book? Such a pity but I can only imagine how the politics go between the bigwigs

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  timethief · Member · Apr 12, 2014 at 6:31 pm

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  Sorry I could not be more helpful.

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  ilegality · Member · Apr 12, 2014 at 6:55 pm

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  No probs, thanks for getting back to me, much appreciated :)