Epub problem....

i have downloaded books in pdf format and converted it into epub but while i try to import in itunes it say that "itunes doesnot support .epub extension" i have tried everything but still cannot solve it?
i have coverted pdf into epub by calibre and also i use itunes in windows operating system

Do you use the latests versions of Calibre (1.12) and latest version of iTunes (11.1.3) ?
Then did you purchase your ebook on PDF on Kindle or Apple iTunes Store ? If so, you file is very likely to be copy protected with DRM.
Even If PDF cannot have the tidy up look and feel of epub, it is still having less problèmes with covers while importing in iTunes.
iTunes is lacking into classifying, categorizing, sorting and importing files ebook speaking.
You have to handle it through fields designed for audio and video files event if ebooks aren't designed for ID3 tags.
Anyway, try to update to latest Calibre version (get it from a known and thrustable source (Sourceforge) because a lot of malware is spreading around on the net.
Keep updating the post for follow up please !
Regards

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After I emailed the three EPUBs to my iPod Touch, all three showed up in my iBooks library but when you see them on the library shelf they have the first book's cover on all three. So I have a redundant cover preview on the library bookshelf icons, in the iBooks app, running in Apple iOS.
I have two books by Elizabeth Castro about Creating EPUBs with InDesign. I'm going to read them some more, especially the part about preparing your EPUB for Apple iBooks, on iOS. But, I thought I would share my problem here to see if anyone has a solution for me. Thanks.

I often end up answering my own questions but I will do so again, this time, so that others can learn. When you are exporting to EPUB in InDesign CS 5.5, an EPUB Export Options diolog appears. Under "EPUB Cover," select "Use Existing Image file" and choose the actual file that was used on on the first page of the InDesign document, for the new book's cover.
This feature can cause inbedded human error if you use a completed Indesign book as a template to create other books because even though you placed a new cover at the beginning of the book, the Export options still has the cover file selected for the previous book you worked on.
I actually got the answer to my problem with the InDesign Help Menu, when InDesign CS 5.5 is launched.

Problem with pictures in pages 5 and epub

Hello,
I have been using pages 09 to make epubs for the last 6 months with happy results.
My new macbook pro came in the mail and I have some problems.
I have figured out how to do all the text formatting, including titles/chapter names, etc. on pages 5.
My problems is with pictures.
In the past, I would click view, then show invisibles, so I could see where the chapter marks are to insert my picture in a particular spot.
The old pages, was great, and the pic showed up right where I wanted it, and that was the end of the story.
New Pages, just throws the picture on the page and then forces me to select a variety of options as far as telling it how I want the picture to display.
This would be no big deal if I only had one or two pics to deal with, but I have tons of pics that need to be inserted in pages and exported to epub.
Does anyone know an easy way to tell pages 5 to just put the picture where I am telling it!
Any advice would be appreciated.
Also, one negative on pages 09 is that you could only have a certain amount of pics/chapter, otherwise they would not show up in the exported epub.
Anyone know if pages 5 suffers from the same absurdity or if you can insert as many pics as you want/chapter.

Ok, I understand what you guys are saying.
A related issue.
I had been using pages 4.1.
When I would take a pic plucked from a pdf and put it into pages and then exported to epub, it compressed the file about 80% like it should.
I ditched pages 5 and went to pages 4.3 (which looked identical to my old pages 4.1.
For whatever reason when I take the same pdf pic and put it into pages and export to epub, instead of compressing by 80%, it is actually expanding the file by 700%.
The original image is identical in both cases, but pages 4.3 doesn't compress upon export to epub.
Any suggestions?

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