IBook Author Illustrations

I have now completed my first iBooks Author publication which is heavily illustrated. Having previously worked with PageMaker where illustrations had to be sized exactly at the correct resolution before being inserted into the page layout, I need a final assurance that I can drag any size of illustration onto my page in iBooks Author, crop it to the required size and iBooks Author will take care of the required resolution for publication?

Your images need to be no bigger than 2 million pixels. This  subject is well covered in a very long thread origininating back to when iBA was new to us!
Pagemaker and the others should be  forgotten - when  using iBA, which  assembles content totally different than a desk top publishing application or web  builder.
The  easiest way is to think in maximums  for your  images and these can be reduced using the  mask function - to any lesser size and it can also be used to  "crop"  the  viewable picture and still leave the image intact.
Simple facts - iPad Retina is 2028 x 1536 DPI / PPI is a matter of choice, 72 - 150 is OK
BTW, if you have not checked.. the  Apple 2million pixel rule is busted- 2048 x 1536 = 3.1 million!
I  Use 2048 x 1536, 1536 x 2048 and some at 1024 x 748, and  748 x 1024 - only because they are already done !
I suggest you take time to study as already suggested, and also download the iBooks Assett Guide
This forum has answer to virtually all problems and taking an  hour out to  "search" a topic is well worth it in the end.

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