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Publishing E-Books For Dummies
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Publishing E-Books For Dummies

by Ali Luke
September 2012
Beginner
312 pages
7h 7m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Creating an Interactive E-Book with iBooks Author

In This Chapter

arrow Downloading the iBooks Author app

arrow Adding the text and images for your e-book

arrow 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 you’re 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 isn’t 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.

warning_bomb.eps 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 and ...

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