Apple iBooks Author helps you create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad. Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more.
Apple-designed templates
- Give your book a great beginning with templates that include a choice of page designs with matching fonts, colors, and textures
- Quickly customize your book with text and images, create new layouts, and even save a custom template
- Easily add a cover, video introduction, table of contents, copyright page, dedication, and foreword
Beautiful text and layouts
- Use a variety of text styles including custom fonts to give your book a rich yet consistent look
- Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and media anywhere on the page
- Import a chapter written in Pages or Microsoft Word and apply a great-looking layout from your current template
- Add sophisticated mathematical expressions with new native equation editing using both LaTeX and MathML notation
- Add any word to the glossary with a single click and easily include photos, images, charts, tables, and shapes next to any definition
- Automatically create a portrait view of your landscape book, which allows readers to focus on the text
Multi-Touch widgets
- Choose from a variety of widgets that add Multi-Touch interactivity to your book
- Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, audio file, Keynote presentation, scrolling sidebar, dynamic pop-over, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book
- Many widgets include placeholders for titles and captions and are automatically numbered so you can reference them in your main text
- Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver
Export for iBookstore or iTunes U
- Preview your book in iBooks on iPad to see how it looks and works
- Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download in a few simple steps
- Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to others
- Export your book as a PDF file
