Synopses & Reviews
Go beyond the pages of a book to create content that leaps out and grabs your attention
The pages of your e-book can truly come alive and provide your readers with a dynamic experience on their iPads. All you have to do is open the door with Apple's iBooks Author. Let this book be your guide on this exciting journey as you learn how to prepare your content, lay it out, and add interactivity to create groundbreaking e-books for the amazing iPad.
Turn the page learn to set up your document and embed various elements in the landscape
Tell the story prepare your text and perform basic editing, formatting, and proofreading steps
Touch it up add a splash of color and make your content pop using background fill, drop shadows, border strokes, and other cool effects
Make sure it's read incorporate sidebars, captions, charts, drawings, and tables to highlight key points
Get involved integrate interactive capabilities such as 3D images, web elements, videos, audio recordings, and image galleries
Open the book and find:
The basics about iBooks Author's inspectors
Steps for preparing text and importing tables
How to add and format various objects in your iBook
Illustrative elements that work
A tour of the interactive features in iBooks Author
Ways to call attention to important content with videos, images, drawings, and more
Helpful advice on creating a table of contents
Tips for getting your documents to readers
Learn to:
Create and publish interactive books for iPad
Add text, video, charts, images, widgets, and more
Publish and distribute your work in the iBookstore
Synopsis
- What the book covers: This book explores Apple's groundbreaking iBooks Author software, which lets anyone create rich, interactive books for use on the Apple iPad. iBooks Author is optimized to let teachers, students, and anyone create textbooks and other educational material, from school reports to how-to guides. And it can be used beyond educational purposes, for any dynamic content, such as children's books, product manuals, and even marketing reports. This book explains how to use iBooks Author to create iPad e-books with video, presentations, and Web components, in addition to the more traditional elements of text, tables, and figures. You'll learn how to design and create an e-book to effectively work on the iPad, as well as how to distribute your iPad e-books to others.
- Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than seventeen years.
Synopsis
Design and create your own e-book using the groundbreaking iBooks Author appWith Apple's iBooks Author app, you can create rich, interactive books for use on the iPad, and this new For Dummies handy portable guide shows you just how to do it. Whether you want to create textbooks, training materials, marketing reports, or awesome product manuals with dynamic content, this book takes you through the process. Plunge in, and you'll soon learn how to create an iPad e-book with all the bells and whistles, including video, interactive widgets, text, tables, figures, colors, cool fonts, and more.
- Helps educators, small publishers, trainers, authors, or entrepreneurs create their own e-books using the new iBooks Author software
- Covers the software as well as book-building basics, such as adding text, color, tables, and figures
- Shows you how to include dynamic content, like video, presentations, interactive widgets, charts, and web components
- Discusses publishing your iPad e-book to the iBookstore
iBooks Author For Dummies is what you need to get your book off the ground and into the hands of readers in a hurry!
About the Author
Galen Gruman is principal of the Zango Group, producing print and e-books. He is also author of several books, including the InDesign Bible, Mac OS X Lion Bible, and Exploring iPad For Dummies.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: What iBooks Author Can Do for You 11
Chapter 2: Putting Together Your Book's Building Blocks 21
Chapter 3: Working with Text 53
Chapter 4: Adding and Formatting Objects 93
Chapter 5: Working with Infographics 127
Chapter 6: Working with Interactive Elements 165
Chapter 7: Working with E-Book Metadata 195
Chapter 8: Publishing and Distributing E-Books 215
Index 225