You can download it for free from the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12
>From the Help file for the app: "iBooks Author is an OS X app for creating media-rich interactive books for iPad. Start with one of the gorgeous Apple-designed templates, and modify it however you like. Along with feature-rich writing and layout tools, iBooks Author provides a collection of ready-to-use widgets for adding movies, review questions, image galleries, and other interactive media. iBooks Author enables you to see how your finished book will look at all times. You can also preview your book on an iPad at any time. You can distribute your completed book yourself, or you can request to publish through the iBookstore and make it available to the public. You can also export your book in a variety of formats." And also: "f you aren’t submitting your book to the iBookstore, you can still create a book file that you can distribute yourself. You can also export your book as a PDF file, which can be viewed or printed using Preview, Adobe Reader, or any PDF reader application. Hyperlinks work in the PDF, but other interactive media (widgets), such as movies and 3D objects, might not work as expected. You can also export only the text from your book. Important: If you choose to distribute your book yourself, be sure to review the guidelines in the iBooks Author software license agreement. To see the agreement, choose iBooks Author > About iBooks Author, and click License Agreement." You must have an iPad to preview what you've created. If you plan to sell those iBooks then they must be sold through Apple's iBookStore. I'm sure there's more subtlety, but that's the gist of it. cheers, Stephen On 17 Feb 2012, at 13:17, Rob Beattie wrote: > Only that it's free, looks quite good and only produces books for > iPads, I think. And you have to sell or give them away via the iTunes > store. Again, I think. > > Rob > ----------------- > Rob Beattie > Freelance writer and book author > www.robbeattie.com > 07769 902820 > Twitter: @robbeattie > > > > On 17 February 2012 13:14, Phil Tomlinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone know anything about the app "iBooks Author"? >> >> PT >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." ~ Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
