iBooks Author: Publishing Your First Ebook (Maria's Guides)
Apple is leading the pack again -- this time with a new ebook authoring tool that pushes the limits of ebook publishing. iBooks Author makes it easy for Mac users to create "multi-touch" ebooks that combine text, images, video, and interactive elements with finely tuned page layouts.iBooks Author: Publishing Your First Ebook helps you learn how to take advantage of iBooks Author's amazing feature set to create your own ebooks without a lot of trial and error experimentation. Using an illustrated, step-by-step approach, it guides you through the creation of a sample ebook with features you're sure to want in your own ebook publications.
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Useful but…,
Maria Langer’s book is useful but misses a number of key points. All published books start out with a cover image with imbedded title and author text. Yet there is no specific instructions on how to insert and format the cover. The IBooksAuthor program is equally negligent on this point. Next, in almost any publication, come the Copyright, Acknowledgement, Table of Contents and Preface pages of the book, yet the iBooksAuthor program illogically buries this important part of the publication under a Chapter Section heading rather than under a separate heading covering these three items. She makes no comment on this. Finally, one other limitation of the iBooksAuthor program is that is particularly irksome for traditional novelists it requires the author to enter and format each chapter of the text separately. I assume this is to allow readers to access each chapter separately via the Table of Contents using chapter hyperlinked text. Most novels do not have Tables of Content
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|Best Used as an iBook,
I purchased this book as an iBook and read it on my iPad while I worked through the lessons on my laptop. This book does the brilliant job of both presenting the necessary material to learn iBooks Author while simultaneously demonstrating the utility of the iBook format. You can choose to read along with clear, step-by-step directions and/or watch a brief video that walks you through the same steps. BTW: you can download all files used in the book from a link provided in the book. Nicely done.
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|Neat book,
The book answered the questions I could not figure out by myself. Thank you for the good tips, they helped.
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