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Instant Apple iBooks How-to

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Instant Apple iBooks How-to

Overview of this book

"iBooks is a great tool for book lovers. This book is a guide for using iBooks for reading, managing, and creating books – everything that an avid reader (and the writer within you) would need. ""Instant Apple iBooks How-to"" is a practical guide that takes you on a reading and writing journey with iBooks for your iPad. Begin with getting familiar with iBooks and proceed to write your first interactive book with iBooks Author! This book begins with downloading the iBooks app from the iTunes store and adding books and PDF collections to it via iBookstore. The book then goes on to explain other technologies in the iBooks app and concludes by showing you how to write your own book with iBooks Author. Not only will you learn how to read and manage books effectively, but you will also learn how those books can be created with iBooks Author. You will also understand how iBooks Author templates can help you lay out a book easily; some third party templates are also available. You will learn everything to maximize your reading and writing experience for the iBooks platform."
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Downloading iBooks from the iTunes store (Must know)


The iBooks application is not pre-loaded on the iPhone and iPad, so users that want to read books on their iOS device need to download the iBooks app from iTunes.

Getting ready

To download and install apps from the iTunes store, you need to have an Apple ID registered and/or iTunes. An Apple ID is free to create, so don't hesitate to get one.

How to do it...

The iBooks App is available for download on https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 (current version being 3.0.2).

Visiting the mentioned link from your iOS device will open the iTunes App Store on your device. You can download the iBooks app like any other app. Alternately, users can also type in iBooks on their iPhone App Store to download the iBooks app.

The iBooks app is an application developed by Apple to work on iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices for e-book reading, annotation, Multi-Touch books, and textbooks. It supports the industry standard .epub, .pdf, and .ibook (Apple proprietary) formats for the books.

There's more...

The iBooks app also includes iBookstore that allows you to download e-books and textbooks available from various publishers.