Ibooks

ibooks Inc. was a publisher associated with Simon & Schuster that published several full-length (~300 pages) Transformers paperbacks between 2003 and 2004.

In mid-2005 founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Preiss" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Byron_Preiss">Byron Preiss</a> was killed in a car accident. ibooks continued to operate for another year, allowing it to fulfill many of its outstanding contracts with authors before filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on February 22, 2006.

Books published

• The "Keepers Trilogy" — followup to the 2003 Dreamwave comic books "Prime Directive."
• Hardwired by Scott Ciencin
• Annihilation by David Cian
• Fusion by David Cian

• Transformers Legends — an anthology edited by David Cian

The "Keepers Trilogy" was later collected as "The Transformers Trilogy" in a hardcover omnibus edition as a Science Fiction Book Club exclusive.