How to Create an Interactive Book With iBooks Author

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How to Create an Interactive Book With iBooks Author

Timothy Brown

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Step 1 of 16

Download the application from the Mac App Store. It's free.

Step 2 of 16

Choose a template for your book. Templates are formatted with different topics in mind.

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Add the title of your book to the cover page.

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Click on the text icon to add text.

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Add shapes to your pages.

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Add tables to your pages by dragging and dropping in place. Use the inspector to make adjustments.

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Add a chart to your page by dragging from the menu bar. Click on the inspector window to add data.

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Click on the widgets icon and drag the review widget to your page to add multiple-choice questions.

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Add 3D content by dragging the 3d widget to your page. You can only add collada files or .dae files. You can find some in the Google Sketchup library.

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Add the video widget and drag and drop your video onto the widget.

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Use the interactive image widget to pan and zoom to different sections of your photo.

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Use the keynote widget to add keynote presentations to your page.

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Add multiple images to a single placeholder to swipe between photos for an interactive slideshow.

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Use the html widget to import your own html5 content (e.g. Projects created using Hype by Tumult.

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Click "publish" at the top menu bar to submit your content to Apple.

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Happy Publishing!

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Awww man that sucks its not available on the iTunes store :/

Malea Sager 9 months ago

I'm sorry. I meant to say that it was not available in the iTunes store. Just the Mac App Store.

Timothy Brown (author) 10 months ago

The app is available in the Mac App Store. the iTunes App store. You also need to have Lion or Mountain Lion. I hope that was helpful.

Timothy Brown (author) 10 months ago

I couldn't find this app?

Amanda Patterson 10 months ago

You're welcome and thanks for your response. I'm still exploring things as well, particularly, the html integration.

Timothy Brown (author) 10 months ago

Oh and thanks for the guide :) I'm just starting to use the app recently.

Michel Daher 10 months ago

There's 2 ways to publish. Either as free downloadable books to iTunes or as sold books. It's quite a great way to publish without a publishing company. Foreigners require US tax number to sell on iTunes. And you can print also.

Michel Daher 10 months ago