iBooks Author
By Apple
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Description
Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author.
Apple-designed templates
• Give your book a great beginning with templates that include a choice of page designs with matching fonts, colors, and textures
• Easily customize your book with text and images, create new layouts, and even save a custom template
• Use the Book Navigator to organize your book and add a cover and table of contents
Beautiful text and layouts
• Use a variety of text styles in each template to give your book a rich yet consistent look
• Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and media anywhere on the page
• Import a chapter written in Pages or Microsoft Word and apply a great-looking layout from your current template
• Add any word to the glossary with a single click and easily include photos, images, charts, tables, and shapes next to any definition
• Automatically create a portrait view of your book, which allows readers to focus on the text
Multi-Touch widgets
• Choose from a variety of widgets that add Multi-Touch interactivity to your book
• Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, Keynote presentation, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book
• Widgets include placeholders for titles and captions and are automatically numbered so you can reference them in your main text
• Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver
Export for iBookstore or iTunes U
• Preview your book in iBooks on an iPad to see how it looks and works
• Easily add a cover, video introduction, copyright page, dedication, and foreword
• Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download with a few simple steps
• Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to others
• Create a version of your book as a PDF file
Keynote ’09 (v5.1.1 or later) is required for Keynote widgets
iBooks 2 is required for previewing
iTunes 10.5.3. is required for syncing
What's New in Version 1.0.1
This release provides an updated version of the End User License Agreement.
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Customer Reviews
Apple Does it Again!
Once again Apple demonstrates its exceptional ability to design tools which are intuitive and have that special polish only Apple can do. Designing books with rich multimedia and interactivity iusing Author makes the process fun and easy to navigate. By including all of the great automatic guides and formatting found in other Apple products such as Pages and Keynote, Apple has made moving to Author a seamless task.
The next great landrush is before us because of this tool. If you know how to use this and have great content ready to go, you can put out great manuals and books which can show others how to do everything from cooking to plumbing. (Heck, this is a great format for those impossible "some assembly required" kids toys that come with cryptic manuals!)
Great! …Except it CRASHES constantly
Updated to Lion, downloaded app. Worked on first book, done. Preview on iPad (like in the movie) and….IT CRASHES. Not once, but every time. Opens book, you see pages and then it goes away. Updated everything, unistalled and re-installed. NOTHING! I feel like a windows BETA tester! People in these reviews are excited and they should be if it worked! But most have not tried the product, I HAVE. Really needs a lot of work, especially the connection.
Oh Yeah, becoming an author? Not as easy as it sounds. You don't need an EIN tax ID as stated, just use your SS#. but that's not explained until you get to the form.
Now listen, I'm not a person who writes alot of these reviews, I'm just reporting my experience. For the past few days, I've done nothing but work on Author. If you know Pages, you're fine. If not, you can learn to migrate your book to Author fairly easily. HOWEVER, no preview on the iPad. That's just wrong! Maybe with some updates. Finally, don't get your hopes up like I did. It ain't finished. Apple. go to work!
Things missing or need work
Some bugs have been fixed. The widgets now work better and work both in landscape and portrait. My rating increases from 3 to 4 stars because these problems remain:
Some content put in landscape still does not appear in portrait mode on the IPAD. For example, tables and charts.
On IPAD, text resizing only works in Portrait Mode, therefore one must experiment with font sizes during development.
Huge left margin appears in Portrait mode.
It does not result in an IBook that allows the neat swiping and "page turning" of books published using epub format.
Of course it should be able to export to epub.
No ability to put in automated bibliography or reference listMost texbooks are divided into Sections that contain Chapters and the Chapters contains Heading. Two types of TOCs are needed. An overall one for the book (Sections and Chapter) and a TOC in each chapter which lists major heading.
Instructions do not indicate how to tag Sections and Headings in Pages or Word documents that are imported.
How about being able to import an epub file?
I am sure some of these issues will be addressed soon.
- Free
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Feb 03, 2012
- Version: 1.0.1
- Size: 137 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011 Apple Inc.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later
