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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)

Publishing your own books with iBooks Author (Should know)


Apple provides an excellent e-book publishing tool—iBooks Author, available free via the Mac App Store, a tool that makes writing interactive e-books for iPad a breeze.

The current Version 2.0 of iBooks Author supports the following features:

  • Multi-Touch books

  • Interactive images and video support

  • 3D support

  • Custom HTML widgets

  • Export to PDF

  • Custom fonts support

  • Mathematical expressions support

  • Retina display support

  • Drag-and-drop content support

  • Templates for common book formats—cookbooks, photo books, and so on

  • Publishing books to iBookstore from within iBooks Author

    Note

    Note that the books produced by iBooks Author can only be viewed on an iPad, the iPhone and iPod devices only have the capability to read EPUB and PDF books.

Getting ready

You need an iPad to test/preview your books on the iPad, so make sure you accessorize yourself with one.

How to do it...

To download iBooks Author, visit the App Store on your MacBook or iMac and search for iBooks Author to download and install it on your machine. It is a 270-MB download.