I have to also add that even though I'm a veteran Adobe Creative Suite user, the Adobe publishing method generated even more confusion for me. Actual publishing to the itunes bookstore, too, seemed a bit shrouded in mystery. Testing or "previewing" your work requires an iPad that's wired to your work station. My first attempts were disastrous, and it took a few books and a lynda dot com video to get me close to acceptable speed. I'm not a regular user of Apple's iWorks suite and found the process of using and manipulating the templates to be less than intuitive.
Ibook author download update#
A later update for the iBooks application seems to have fixed that, but I'm not sure I have all the functionality. Initially, it was only possible on newer devices and my first generation iPad wouldn't work. The bad:Ī "Multi Touch Interactive Book" from iBooks Author is only viewable, readable, useable, on an Apple iOS device that runs the Apple iBook application.
I found that it was simple to drag from my desktop directly in to the iBooks Author window. It's easy to add interactive features as well as drag and drop m4v video and audio clips. It has a similar template based approach, and offers a half dozen attractive themes. If you regularly use the applications from Apple's iWorks suite, iBooks Author should feel very familiar. In case a direct download fails, the archive may prevent file corruption. The 32 meg file can download directly to an ereader, or through any browser.
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