Hyperlinks in iBooks Author preview

I have created a hyperlink in iBooks Author (1.0.1) and it shows up and works perfectly when I click on it - i.e. Safari launches and displays the expected page on my iMac. When I send (Preview) the book in question to my iPad 2 (running iOS 5.0.1) however, the link doesn't work at all. Is this because I am only looking at a preview of my book on the iPad and it will work when I publish it or am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Great work, Timmy.
Having solved that one, we now need to crack on with the following wish list:
- creating a touch screen accessible footnotes function
- a show/hide option for answers to review questions
- providing a starter set of notes at the editorial stage
- additional text editing functions not currently in pages
- touch-activated pop-ups on screen
- text resizing by gestures, like the Macbook trackpad
And the real biggie .. How institutions like our uni can serve course material on this platform (free at the point of use) but with access restricted to those enrolled in courses. Does anyone know if Apple has an institutional support business option.
It strikes me that the early adopters need to be vocal about how powerful this could be as an educational delivery tool as soon as IBA's teething problems have been sorted. Let's add to the wish list and build the teaching platform of the future.
Cheers,
MicroGnome.

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iBooks Author: Preview a book in iBooks
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2807
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