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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
How to become an author in iBooks Author
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As we informed before that Apple has released two applications that are considered to be a huge jump in the world of education. First, there was iBooks 2 that provides interactive textbooks and second comes the iBooks Author which provides a way for these interactive textbooks to be viewed over the iPad.
In other words, iBooks Author is a Mac application that lets you create your own textbook using the tools provided within where you can then view them over the iPad.
With iBooks Author you can create all kind of books such as textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books and much more as long as you have the required tools to create the book.
To become the author in iBooks Author you should use tools such as the following:
1- First, create the idea about the book in your mind so that it can ease the process of creation
2- You can choose one of the templates already given that has lots of designed pages
3- Insert your own texts and photos through drag-and-drop
4- Use the multi touch widgets so that you can include photo galleries, movies, keynote presentations, 3D objects and much more
5- You are now done with the book. You can view it on iPad.
Send your own-designed book to the iBook store and then it will be revised and published
6- Congratulations, you are now an author
For more information, have a look below to the features that are provided with the iBooks Author application:
- Apple-designed templates
- There is the book navigator that helps in organizing the book and adding a cover page and a table of contents
- You can use varieties of beautiful texts and layouts
- You can attract the readers’ attention to the text by the portrait view that you can create for your book
- Multi-Touch widgets
- Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, Keynote presentation, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book
- Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver
Finally, to remind you again that you can get the iBooks Author for free from the Mac App Store.
Download iBooks Author for Mac OS X
This post was written by: Rinkul Jena
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