IBooks Author markets

Hi,
Is the iBookStore for iBooks Author-made books open and ready worldwide? Or just for the US? I am meaning paid ibooks, not just free ones.
Thanks.
Ignacio

if iBookStore is available in one country is ALSO available for textbooks made with iBooks Author, not just regular EPUBs and fixed-layout EPUBS?
Yes. Whether the book is in ePub or iBooks format doesn't matter.
Michi.

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HT4059 I HAVE A MACBOOK AIR OS X 10.6.8. HOW CAN I GET THE 10.7.4 TO INSTALL IBOOKS AUTHOR 2.0?

I cant install ibooks author in my macbook air, because i have a 10.6.8 and ibooks author 2.0 requires 10.7.4. how can i get this os x update?

Lion may still be available if you call the online Apple Store, though a couple of recent threads have reported it as no longer available. If the Apple Store still has it, they will ask for your Apple ID and credit card number and will then send you a code which you can redeem in the Mac App Store.
Alternatively, you may still be able to find the USB installer at a local Apple Store or an Apple dealer, though available stocks will probably disappear quickly if they have not already. Otherwise you'll have to look for the USB installer on the open market, such as through eBay or a Mac User Group. Those USB installers are starting to rise in price.
An alternative, if your MBA supports it, would be to upgrade directly to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. With either Lion or Mountain Lion, confirm compatibility of your exising applications and peripherals before you upgrade.
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Making a photographic book in landscape and portrait mode in iBooks author

Hello, I am making a photographic book with the iBooks author and I have a problem that I cannot resolve. The book is only with photos, without text and I am putting every photo on a whole page. I made around 15 pages in landscape orientation and now I want to make the same thing with the same photos in portrait, but I don't know how to arrange the photos to match when the ipad is flipped. The whole idea is that I want people to see different crops of the photos when they flip the iPad. I hope that you understood me and will eventually come up with solution... Really thanks!

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If you are looking to reshape the graph based on whether the user has selected portrait or landscape mode, you could use a property node for your graph that executes in the same case as the print orientation, in which you reshape the graph using plotareasize or another property. I've attached an example of this.
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IBooks Author or InDesign CS6 for interactive eBook?

I've been asked to create some "marketing collateral" (free, not for purchase) for my company that in addition to text would include some vidoes w/ audio. The material HAS to work on the iPad b/c that's how it will be displayed at the tradeshow.
However, if the materials could reach a larger audience than just iPad users, that would be a bonus. I've just read that iBooks now supports ePub3, and I understand that InDeisgn CS6 can export to ePub3?
My questions is whether I should use iBooks Author or use InDesign? I use InDesign for print & PDFs, but never for interactive. I don't want to use the DPS - we have no intent of selling this material. I have no experience with iBooks.
I have such a short window of time to produce this, that I thought it would be best to ask some experienced designers which direction you would go.
Thanks in advance.

The idpf links to some epub3 samples hosted on google ( http://code.google.com/p/epub-samples/downloads/list ), and there is one that contains embedded audio & video. I opened it on my 1st generation iPad, and it opened & played the video. It's rather visually uninteresting, however, and I'm not sure if that's b/c of the epub format or the intent of the author.
There are other examples of epub3 out there if you google it, and they will show how how others have utilized the format ( http://vimeo.com/24954073 ). It's still not really what I'm looking for visually.
I looked into DPS on the Adobe site, and the example of Univeristy of Ohio app was amazing especially considering the lack of developers involved. This probably won't work for my current project, b/c it looks as though you have to upload the file to the Apple store, and I've been told they don't want to do that. Bummer; but I'm keeping it in mind for future marketing purposes.
It looks like iBook Author is going to be the winning platform.

About table of contents on ibooks author

Hello everyone, I am preparing an ibook on ibooks author and I want to custom the table of contents but I don't get to do it. Whenever I paste an item it appears on every single section within the table of contents. I would also like to know, if I paste an image how do I get it to fill the entire slide. Thanks in advance

I'm not 100% sure what you're hoping to do, but if you mean the TOC background, that will look the same for every chapter (what changes is the text and the thumbnails that are generated at the bottom). Whichever colors and graphical treatments you choose when editing the master, that is what you will see throughout the TOC. As you add new chapters, they are automatically added to the TOC and generated on preview / export / publish.
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Totally agree that is a restriction (along with the inability to even offer product in some markets as well).
The blogosphere seems to be well aware of it. It's quite a reach for an EULA, and was probably cooked up back while Saint Steve was still in charge. Heck, why don't they just write in that you assign your copyright to AAPL.
So anyone planning on becoming an iStore billionaire needs to know about it in advance.
And the principal message is: do your original authoring on some other platform. Use iBA only to re-render for the iPrison.
And we need some clarity on whether "the work" in the EULA is presumed to be pre- or post-iBA (or both).
On further reflection as regards the blog link in the basenote, it may be no accident that iBA doesn't import some obvious formats like RTF or (pick up jaw) XML. I suspect that the AAPL lawyers are trying to discourage precisely what I recommend - author in some other tool. And no, I would not presume that they make no claims on your pre-iBA source document. This is lawyers we're talkin' about, after all, not human beings.

IBooks Author 2.1.3 Requirement

I got this email from Apple, it says at the end:
iBooks Author 2.1.3 Requirement
Starting September 1, 2014, new or updated Multi-Touch books submitted to the iBooks Store must be created with iBooks Author 2.1.3 or later.
Multi-Touch books delivered prior to this date will still be reviewed by Apple or, if already approved, will remain available on the iBooks Store.
Do you know if that means ALL books, or the ones created with iBooks Author now needing to upgrade version.
If they are only allowing books created with iBooks Author, that'd shake the industry as I understand it.
Thanks.

I don't have a copy of the Apple authoring rules, but in their marketing materials they always connect "Mutli-Touch" books with books created with iBooks Author. I don't think it's precluding EPUB 3 files. I think they're saying if you're using iBooks Author, you must at least be using version 2.1.3 or later.

HT4059 iBooks 2/ iBooks Author

There is neither iBooks 2 nor iBooks Author in my App Store in my iPad2. There is a video in the apple website showing how students interact with their iBooks/notebooks on iPads. I don't own a computer because I don't like computers. Is a computer required for apps like this?

Lion may still be available if you call the online Apple Store, though a couple of recent threads have reported it as no longer available. If the Apple Store still has it, they will ask for your Apple ID and credit card number and will then send you a code which you can redeem in the Mac App Store.
Alternatively, you may still be able to find the USB installer at a local Apple Store or an Apple dealer, though available stocks will probably disappear quickly if they have not already. Otherwise you'll have to look for the USB installer on the open market, such as through eBay or a Mac User Group. Those USB installers are starting to rise in price.
An alternative, if your MBA supports it, would be to upgrade directly to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. With either Lion or Mountain Lion, confirm compatibility of your exising applications and peripherals before you upgrade.
Regards.
Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Communities page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums and in the Apple Knowledge Base, before you post a question.

Ibooks author for windows

Is there any way to use ( ibooks author ) in windows 7 ?

What amazes me is that Apple is shutting off non-Mac authors, who are Windows-based. Using 3rd party aggregators is not the answer here. Amazon has "Kindle apps" for all Apple devices, and hence, will be able to sell books to Windows or Apple OS users. Apple, on the other hand, seems to be shutting out a very important segment of the market (i.e., Windows authors). Unless you go through an aggregator (and this process is difficult and fraught with problems, from all that I have read), Apple is betting on the world being Mac-based. Apple should have a Windows port of its iBook Author and iTunes Producer programs. Am I missing something here?

How to publish an iBook without using iBooks Author?

I've been reading the various pages on the subject and what I've gathered is:
-If you publish through iBooks Author, you can only sell your book through iBooks.
Is there an option in which you can upload a pdf version of the book?
If so, are you required to provide an ISBN or is there a way around it?

You don't have to use iBooks Author (and books produced by iBA can only be read in the iBooks app on iPads and Macs, they can't be read on iPhones nor iPod Touches), but you can't sell PDFs in the iBookstore - but you can sell epubs in it.
Creating epubs with Pages : Creating ePub files with Pages.
Authors and publishers FAQ : http://www.apple.com/itunes/working-itunes/sell-content/books/book-faq.html
Selling books on iTunes : http://www.apple.com/itunes/working-itunes/sell-content/books/
From the above FAQ :
Do I need an International Standard Book Number (ISBN)?
No, an ISBN is recommended but not required for any book you are offering on the iBooks Store. An ISBN uniquely identifies the book and its current edition, and helps you to ensure that you are marketing the right book. The ISBN is also required for reporting your book's sales to industry reporting agencies and charting organizations.
To obtain an ISBN in the U.S., contact Bowker. To obtain an ISBN outside the U.S., contact the International ISBN Agency.

Ibook author for iPad mini

It seems to be a fact that a smaller iPad will come.
fixed layout ibooks, optimized for the current size will probably not be readable enough on the small screen.
anybody who has any idea how to handle it? producing a second version?

IF..
they get a zoom function.
And - if it is part of IOS, or is it feature of updated ibook author? In this case all books must be exported and delivered again.
To read a book with zooming and moving every page will be problematic, however.
Actually all books must be layouted and tested on the new iPad, I guess.
Or a minumum font size muste be found, as 16 px...
if the small iPad boost the selling and the market for ibooks it is good. but to consider this technical problem such a short time after starting working with multi-touch-books is stressfull..

How can I share iBooks authored by me using iBook Author on 2 different iPads synced to two different computors? Both iPads have different iTunes accounts.

I am in the process of authoring an eBook using iBook Author. The project is a work in progress and I want to share the draft with other collegues. We each have our own iPads synced with other computers and we have different iTunes acounts. I attempted to preview the book on the new iPad, but the iPad did not come up in the available device window.
Am I missing something or is there a way around this?

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Can I move an ibook author file from one device to another?

I have ibook Author on my Macbook and my Mac Mini. If I start a project on my Macbook, is it possible to transfer the incomplete file to my Mini (where all my pictures and charts are stored) later to complete it?
~~ Chikana

Just like any other file, save your book where you can find it - it will have the suffix .iba
Move that file, however you like, to your other computer and continue there.

How do I add a widget to give a review or star rating for a book at the end of a book in iBooks Author?

How do I add a widget to give a review or star rating for a book at the end of a book in iBooks Author? You know, how you buy books on iBooks and when you're finished reading it, there's a place where you can give a rating or review right there on the very last page?

Just supply a link that says 'Review This Book' - use http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/ to generate one.

How do I update an iBook created in iBooks Author without losing old notes?

I have been creating an iBook using iBooks Author. I export it as an iBook that I can open in iBooks on my computer and on my iPad.
The challenge I am running into is that I highlight sections and make notes and want to keep those even as I add new content to the iBook. Is there a way to update an iBook on my computer and have it update the one in iBooks without losing everything I created before?
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AFAIK, the update process that allows note/bookmark retention is currently only thru the store.

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