Chapter 7
Creating an Interactive E-Book with iBooks Author
In This Chapter
Downloading the iBooks Author app
Adding the text and images for your e-book
Including multimedia elements in your e-book
If you want to create an e-book for the iPad, packed with such innovative elements as video clips and heavily designed pages, the iBooks Author application can be just what you need. But if youâre writing a novel or a nonfiction e-book that consists mainly of text (with perhaps a few images), the app has more bells and whistles than you need and may overcomplicate things for you.
This chapter walks you through the process of installing iBooks Author on your Mac computer. (To use the app, you need OS X 10.7.2 or later. It isnât available for Windows.) You can see how to import your e-book manuscript, including text and images, into iBooks Author and how to add videos and Keynote presentations.
The e-book you create in iBooks Author can be sold only from the Apple Store, not via other online stores or even your own site. However, you can export your e-book in the standard EPUB format ...
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