IBooks Author & iPhone

I just pushed a new short story that was done in iBooks Author and does not include any multimedia.  Luckily, the story went live in about 12 hours.  Unfortunately, it's shown that it works on the iPad only.  Why wouldn't work on the iPhone?  Is this something specific to the fact that I used iBooks Author to publish it?

That's correct. iBA is only for iBooks on iPad.
Part of the reason is that iBA outputs a hybird epub that Apple thought up.
If you want to support both iPhone and iPad, use Pages, as one example, and ship an industry accepted epub instead.

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    leriasliz wrote:
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    To make sure Apple hears your thoughts on this, you need to post at
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    Again, two different programs, registrations and processes. If you can make the same subject matter apply to, and work with/thru both, go for it with two efforts, but it won't be one thing in two stores.
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