Books.app is released under the GNU GPL.
For more information on installing Books.app, and installing eBooks themselves, visit http://iphoneebooks.googlecode.com/.
The package should contain:
This README file The Books.app application The copybookdir.sh script
Books.app should be copied to the /Applications directory on your iPhone using scp. For details, see the above website, in the Installation wiki page.
The copybookdir.sh script is a Bash script to automate copying folders containing eBook chapters to the place where Books.app looks for them. Install iPHUC, plug in your iPhone, and run:
./copybookdir /path/to/ebook/folder
It currently has many problems, only a few of which are:
Anyone who is a better Bash guru than me, please, please help!
Eventually the script will be replaced by a full Cocoa app for Mac OS X. I don't program Windows or Linux, but I welcome contributors.
Zach Brewster-Geisz Aug. 2007