Ibooks 2 and iBooks Author!

Hi guys!!
I have some questions about the iBooks 2 Store and the iBooks Author, please help me further with them.
1. Can anyone post self-made books for sale or for free download in iBooks 2 Store? (For example, students at a school that has made books on a topic, they learned about?)
2. Is Apple strict with photos and other material taken from the internet, google or books etc? (Must every materials be selv produced?)
3. How long does it take to get a book published in iBooks 2, so other students and teachers can download the same book?
4. Does someone have a guide on how to publish the book in iBooks 2 Store?
Thank you in advance!

1.) See iBooks Author: Publishing and distribution FAQ - Support- but, yes, anyone...once they have completed the required agreements and been accepted into the program. There are separate programs for 'paid' and 'free'. You might want to utilize the method of putting free books on your own server and not going thru the store.at all, if the audience is limited to other students in your school, as an example.
2.) Of course You are expected to be able to show proof-of-right-to-use should Apple ask.
3.) If you go through the store it can from a few to several days. 'Text' books for edu can take longer.
4.) When you sign up, you are able to download guides for iTunes Producer, which is the tool used to submit books.
Good luck
Ken

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As always, feel free to use the 'Provide iBooks Author Feedback' menu item for features you'd like added in the future, etc.
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Given that iOS is PDF-based and that HTML5 has SVG I assumed (mistakenly) that iBooks and iBooks Author would support resolution-independence vector images. Indeed, it will accept PDF often, but on creation of the .ibook, it produces low resolution bitmaps. There is no decent way to create image viewing that enables a user to look at a diagram that cannot be read on page size of an iPad2. Interactive Image will allow larger images (up to 4096pixels wide in landscape mode), but to let the user zoom you need fake viewpoints that point somewhere and in all, creating something where the user can pan/scroll/zoom is ugly and a pain.
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It has been more than a half year since Apple released iBooks Author. Unless I find a way to let the reader investigate larger diagrams, preferably interactive ones, e.g. created as a HTML5 widget with SVG objects in it, or unless Apple delivers a product with less problems bugs and such, my project needs to move away from iBooks.

Thanks, but I am not going to try anything else. I have lost any trust in iBooks Author that I can get this right.
First, it means buying Keynote just for this experiment and besides that means that my images all end up in a widget (I have many inlines now) which will also not be exported properly in PDF.
I am unhappy enough that I have to buy Pages to save my project (if I had known this in advance, I would probably have written the book in TeX and try to find a decent paper publisher) and lose all the nice interaction ideas I had.
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I have spent hours on the phone with what I now know is a call center in Texas on this question.
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Account Applications:
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Global Phone Support
We have expanded English-language publisher phone support. To make contacting the iBookstore support even easier, new local phone numbers are now available for Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K. Support is available Monday to Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. (PT).
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Australia
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Note that this is a low tariff number.
France
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Germany
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Italy
800 915 902
Netherlands
0800 0201 578
Spain
900 812 687
U.K.
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U.S.
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Toll-free from U.S. and Canada.
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