Is it possible to co-author books ?

Question

Is it possible to co-author books ?
How can you work with iBook writing with a friend ?

Answer 1

Hello Teresa,
You can work in smaller isolated files.
One master iBooks Author File on one computer only — (this helps prevents with common mistakes creeping in with file versions).
Reduce the individual work loads into small individual sections.
Co-workers work on their part of the book and creates this in an identical template file that you each have.
This same work style can be carried out by many contributors and fed into the one master file.
Then the smaller versions can be copied and pasted into the master file either collating the individual sections or even just coping the pages required and pasting them into the area / section / chapter of the master file.
Just remember that iBooks Author can still not move pages around so you have to build in extra blank pages after each area to make moving pages around easier.
If one or more person needed to work on the exact same section of the file at least the smaller sections are easier to transfer and manage.
Using Pages or Keynote is a good way to work with contributing files and then these are fed into the master file.
Especially now with the new sharing functions with pages and iOS 10.10
We have not used this new function ourselves since currently the work flow is commonly in one direction and then fed into iBooks Author in our current project.
Additionally some people using different computer systems such as Linux and so none of the pages and web files work across each other.
So Power point and Keynote work well in this case.
I hope this helps a little but keep asking questions and explain how you are currently working, I might get some tips too.
Regards,
Nigel