Jan 20, 2012 00:37:57

Apple announces "iBooks Author" for free e-book creation

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Everyone can easily create interactive e-books easily, can check in advance on the iPad at hand, can publish to iBookstore after completion, and amazing app available at "Free" was announced by Apple .

Mac App Store - iBooks Author
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12

Apple - iBooks Author
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

Apple - Press Info - Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/19Apple-Reinvents-Textbooks-with-iBooks-2-for-iPad.html

Live from Apple's education event in NYC | The Verge
http://live.theverge.com/Event/Live_from_Apples_education_event_in_NYC

Looks like this

Cover making

Create like Pages and Keynote

The whole chapter stand is visible in the upper right

Movie can be embedded

Placing titles for each chapter

In order, you can swap thumbnail images by drag & drop

It is announced that it seems to be quite easy to make than the application that makes e-book so far, in fact it is exactly the case

Importing files such as Keynote, inserting images, inserting 3D, linking can be done from here

When inserting images

Widgets with interactive operability can be embedded. In other words, it's easy to create e-books that are not only easy to see, easy to navigate, navigate from here, operate with gestures, or move

These models can also be rotated around in 3DCG, enlarged / reduced

Embed movies

Embedding a Keynote file

Embedding interactive parts

It is also easy to add terms

Of course you can create it as usual with word processor

In the case of portrait or landscape, that is, what happens if you change the direction of the screen on the iPad is automatically reflected

In the blink of an eye in no time, an e-book is completed in about five minutes of things

Save with file name

By saving "Preview" you can see how it looks on your iPad / iPad 2. If you use "Publish" it will be published in "iBookstore". Is it possible to create and publish / publish e-books in one shot? it's amazing.

Where I am looking at the iPad

Anyone can easily create e-books, support a lot of beautiful and customizable templates, embed multi-touch widgets, embed photos and movies, is an extension of HTML 5, can be published to iBookstore in a haste