iBooks Authorcreating Multi-Touch books for iPad

New England Chapter of ASIS&T MIT, Cambridge, MAJanuary 30, 2013

http://nicolehennig.com

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Outline

• What is iBooks Author?• Examples• iBookstore• Why choose this platform?• Other authoring platforms• Software overview• My book projects• Learn more• Discussion

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What is iBooks Author?

free Mac app

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What is iBooks Author?

• creates multi-touch ebooks that can be sold (or offered for free) in Apple’s iBookstore

• or create non-interactive books that can be sold elsewhere (PDF)

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Textbook creator

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Other interactive books

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Interactive widgets

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Math equations

•Equation editor

•MathML or LaTeX

•works with MathType application

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iBooks Shelf

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Examples

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Examples

[ live demo on iPad ]

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iBookstore

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Why choose this platform?

• easiest way (at present) to make interactive books without being a developer

• Apple’s audience

• you get 70%

• design and distribute free books

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Why choose this platform?

• designed to work with volume discount plan for schools purchasing textbooks

• easy to distribute in iTunes U

• Apple accessibility guidelines

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5073

Accessibilityguidelines

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Legal

What you can’t do:- You can’t sell your multi-touch book on other platforms, or your own website.

What you can do:- If you are making your title free, you can distribute it both on the iBookstore and your own website.

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Legal

More things you CAN do:

- take the written content from your book (without interactive elements), and publish it on other platforms (such as Kindle or print).

- export your book to a PDF file that you can sell on any platform.

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Example

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Other authoring platforms

$4.99

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iBooks and file types

• epub• epub (with DRM)• PDF

• .ibooks used by iBooks Author

iBooks app on iPad can read:

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Ebook file types

https://www.writelydone.com/blogs/darnzen/understanding-e-book-file-formats-00818

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Ebook file types made simple

• epub = iBooks and many others

• mobi = Kindle

• PDF

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Book types in iTunes

•Book = a book you downloaded from the Internet

•Purchased book = DRM-free book from iBookstore

•Protected book = copy-protected book from iBookstore

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DRM-free

multiple formats

Best practices(in my opinion)

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DRM-free

multiple formats

Best practices(in my opinion)

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• On the proprietary nature of the iBooks Author file format - John Gruberhttp://daringfireball.net/2012/01/ibooks_author_file_format

• Why the Emotional Criticism of iBooks Author is Wrong - Mike Elginhttp://www.cultofmac.com/141832/why-the-emotional-criticism-of-ibooks-author-is-wrong/

Why I don’t mind that .ibooks files are proprietary

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Software overview

Mac app store, free

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Templates

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Templates

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Software overview

[ live demo on MacBook Air ]

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My multi-touch book projects

Apps4Academics Elder Storiesusing the iPad to bring your

family history to life

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My online courses

http://www.udemy.com/bookapps

http://apps4librarians.com/

course preview:https://vimeo.com/52980759

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Learn more - books

free

- free- multi-touch- sample of full book

free$15

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Learn more - video training

$5.99 iOS appMac app

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Discussion

Are you planning to make a multi-touch book?

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Slides available

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