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'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available
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What is with the 'force' crap?
Don't you have a freaking option of not updating (for $30 dollars)?
Whant to use the tool? Spend $30 dollars and make globes of money with your interactive book.
Awesome.
This is the absolute best timing ever for me. Time to upgrade to Lion, little used software compatibility be damned.
This is the absolute best timing ever for me. Time to upgrade to Lion, little used software compatibility be damned.
Why would you expect new functions to be back-ported to old OS versions? As a software vendor myself, I don't know why anyone would do this-- the development and support costs are non-trivial. Users do need to pay for this, and maintenance fees or upgrades are alternative ways. A $30 upgrade fee seems pretty reasonable to me.
- Put iBook on webpage
- Click Link
- Open In... iBook
- Turn on WebDAV mode in GoodReader/iFile
- Copy iBook to WebDAV server
- Use GoodReader/iFile to Open In... iBooks.
The Export from the File Menu instead of the Publish button makes an unprotected iBook file which can be easly sided loaded.
Is this me, or it's looks exactly like iWeb...
So Apple finally update iWeb, I'm happy
It's almost exactly like Pages '09 except that you can no longer 'use small icons' in your toolbar. Only ridiculously sized icons.
It seems to have taken the iWork team 3 years to remove this feature and add just a few new things (the interactive widgets look quite cool). Such a disappointment that iWork development on OS X has slowed down so much after such a promising start. Why not bring those interactive elements into Keynote? Make Numbers feature-rich rather than just pretty and nice to use?
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Why is Apple pushing all it's users so hard on to Lion? Lion stinks and yet, Apple is still forcing its users? Apple is changing for the worse and I'm getting worried...
If Lion "stinks", Apple should put additional resources on making Lion better, not backporting some new feature to an old OS.
Lion is on it's 3rd point release, and the fourth should be out soon-- can't come too soon for me.
Pricing
So if you have a book that absolutely must be priced above $14.99, I guess you could use the free iBooks software to edit it (or ePub), and sell it on the traditional iBooks 1 site at say $99.95. If I am wrong please alert me. I have several technical publications that do not fit into the traditional textbook model or low pricing model, but it would be cool to offer an electronic version of it. Of course Amazon is drooling for me to go exclusive with them for 6 months first. Hmmm. I may hire a service to convert them as well.
Rocketman
So if you have a book that absolutely must be priced above $14.99, I guess you could use the free iBooks software to edit it (or ePub), and sell it on the traditional iBooks 1 site at say $99.95. If I am wrong please alert me. I have several technical publications that do not fit into the traditional textbook model or low pricing model, but it would be cool to offer an electronic version of it. Of course Amazon is drooling for me to go exclusive with them for 6 months first. Hmmm. I may hire a service to convert them as well.
Rocketman
I know I dont get on here much but holy troll. People do not understand you can legally cram lion into a small little virtualized box and let it be all happy retard in its corner so you can play with some of the newer toys.
I guess you missed the part where several posters pointed out they would have to upgrade hardware as well. Including me. In my case the scanner software need Rosetta.
I wish we could design our own templates easily (without the whole iWeb she-bang hacks).
I don't see a way to create a template or at least start with a completely stripped down document, either. There's "New" and "New From Template Chooser", but both open the template chooser.
I tried the "Basic" template but it seems to be pretty rigid as far as having the textbook style "Chapter" page, you can't just add a freeform text page and put a chapter heading on it.
Update: With the Basic template you can insert a "Section" instead of a "Chapter" and make the "Section" the first page of your chapter. The result is more novel-like. I see that you can save your own template after you tweak everything.
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ipad app version?
I've got two stable systems running Snow Leopard and now reason to upset the "apple cart". I don't give a flip about the $29 to upgrade the OS but I've read countless nightmare scenarios related to digicam firmware not working under Lion, etc. I've been using Apple products for over 20 years and I freakin' KNOW how these so-called "easy upgrades" REALLY go. It never goes smoothly.
$29 is nothing, but the pain of troubleshooting incompatibility for the next month or so does bother me.
Why don't they release an iPad app version too?
$125 to buy an ISBN for each book published. Really?
You can only publish text books. Did I read that correctly?
And it says you can only sell your book through the iBookstore. So, if I just output a PDF version and want to sell it on my own site I'm not allowed to do that?
I've got two stable systems running Snow Leopard and now reason to upset the "apple cart". I don't give a flip about the $29 to upgrade the OS but I've read countless nightmare scenarios related to digicam firmware not working under Lion, etc. I've been using Apple products for over 20 years and I freakin' KNOW how these so-called "easy upgrades" REALLY go. It never goes smoothly.
$29 is nothing, but the pain of troubleshooting incompatibility for the next month or so does bother me.
Why don't they release an iPad app version too?
$125 to buy an ISBN for each book published. Really?
You can only publish text books. Did I read that correctly?
And it says you can only sell your book through the iBookstore. So, if I just output a PDF version and want to sell it on my own site I'm not allowed to do that?
I sincerely hope to see a renaissance of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books using this.
Rather than having to flip pages around you could just say "tap here if you poke the sleeping bear" and "tap here to sneak by." You could have 3D Models of objects that you find (kind of like Skyrim, look for clues on, over, under them to inform your choices etc) and short video snippets of your fate or critical events.
Rather than having to flip pages around you could just say "tap here if you poke the sleeping bear" and "tap here to sneak by." You could have 3D Models of objects that you find (kind of like Skyrim, look for clues on, over, under them to inform your choices etc) and short video snippets of your fate or critical events.
You don't get it. He, like many of us, thinks that Lion is an abomination.
Between iCloud and this, we must 'upgrade' if we are to keep the integration we've come to expect.
"Widgets can also be custom written for an iBook using code in Javascript and HTML"…
So somebody somewhere will make LaTeX support if indeed it is necessary. It won't even be hard to do it.
My brother and I are talking about doing that now. Gotta stop talking and start writing soon, though…
We were going to do it as an app, but I have a feeling iBooks Author will do just fine.
"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."
Oh great. Now anyone can write a textbook! You don't need to be a scholar or even an authority. All you need is an opinion, time, and a Mac. I can't wait for the "textbooks" on how the world was created in seven days.
Oh great. Now anyone can write a textbook! You don't need to be a scholar or even an authority. All you need is an opinion, time, and a Mac. I can't wait for the "textbooks" on how the world was created in seven days.
I have been using Lion since it was released last year. There's nothing broken in it. I am a power user - a Sr Network Architect - and am using it for work every day.
When I ran it it only showed the movie the first time. Any other time it opened to the last page I was on.
I did the same when iCloud came, and then I was pissed off by all the design issues and lost features, and ultimately downgraded to Snow Leopard because Exposé and Spaces are just too good to be replaced by the half-arsed Mission Control.
