iBook Alerts

There is a nifty little feature in iBooks that allows you to add alerts for your favorite author. Any time your favorite author releases a new book in the iBooks store you will get a pop alert or email alert. You can also set up alerts that will notify you based on previously purchased or downloaded books that reside on your iBook Shelf within the iBooks app.

How to set up alerts

Open iBooks on your iPad, if iBooks opens up to your bookshelf you will need to tap on the store button on the top left. Now that you're viewing the iBooks store you can either search for your favorite author using the search bar on the top right or you can search for a book the author wrote, once you see the search result you are looking for tap book to read the description and the ratings.



On the top right of this page you will see several options, you are looking for "Alert Me"



Tap that and an alert page will open and you will receive a blue popup box asking you to confirm by clicking "OK", tap OK.



After you tap OK you will be on a blank page, tap the Featured button on the top left that will take you back to the previous page. You have now successfully set up an alert for your desired author.

Manage your alerts

You can also manage your alerts or setup alerts for your desired taste in books based off of previously purchased or download books. To do this make sure you are on the "Featured" tab, you can find that in the bottom menu bar (see the first image above), if you are not in the Featured section tap it to open up the Featured page. With the Featured page open scroll to the bottom of the page until you see the Quick Links section, within the Quick Links you should see a My Alerts category. Select My Alerts and a My Alert page will open.



With it open you will see all the books from the authors you either set up alerts for or other books from authors whose books you have previously purchased or downloaded in iBooks.



You can also tap the "Manage My Alerts" button on the top right of this page and a popup window will appear with several settings to choose from. Here you will see a list of all the authors you have set up alerts for, also you can remove them from the list by uncheck marking them and tapping done. You can also set up email alerts or alerts based on previous purchases. Once you have finished adjusting your alerts just tap the blue "Done" button and your changes will be saved.



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