Making ebooks for iPad?

Not sure where to post this. As there is no appropriate category, I guess my question is answered. It is: Has Apple produced an iWeb-like application (for Mac—i.e., simple but reasonably sophisticated) that can put together ebooks for the iPad?
Did I miss it?

I think it is most unlikely that searchability played any role in the decision to use ePub rather than PDF in iBooks, but if you can find a reference to the contrary someplace I would welcome seeing it.
One fans the flames, the other douses the flames.
In technical terms, for PDF reflowing / reformatting / repurposing it is necessary that structure information for the parts of the page and semantic information for the simple CMAP shaping and the supplementary glyph substitution shaping be preserved.
Advertising PDF as the Internet standard, and advertising PDF archiving from Quartz at the introduction of Mac OS X, Apple at the same time opted not to implement tagged PDF at the introduction of Mac OS X.
John Zimmerer, Color and Imaging Product Manager, launched a PDF User Feedback in 2003. This process was patterned on the ICC User Feedback in 2001 (relayed / reposted to the ColorSync Users List at the time).
The first decision on what to implement in the document model for Mac OS X, and the following decision to on what to implement in the composition model for Mac OS X, compounds the problems of chaotification caused by broken font product published by Adobe and Linotype.
There is a complaint in the Copenhagen business press (Politiken). The complaint concerns the number of press pieces on the iPad (120) compared to competing products (3). Considering that the product cannot be purchased, the complaint is in fact correct.
Adobe is good at spin, too. Jonathan Seybold told the New York Times in 1991 that he would publish in Warnock's viewable PostScript product two years before it was released for review. Seybold saw it as the mission of Seybold Publications to promote the Adobe imaging model.
When I received the review CD for Acrobat Search in September 1994, there was no word of Apple's Portable Digital Document model whereas other page turners were openly demolished on the review CD. At Seybold SF in September 1994, Spindler and Warnock announced the shift from Print, then Distribute to Distribute, then Print alongside Adobe support for Apple QuickTime in the Adobe PDF document model and support for Apple OpenDoc in the Adobe application model, reported by Chief Editor Kurt Wolf in Deutsche Drucker. Perhaps paradoxically, one of the reasons for the ISO 15930 PDF/X family of standard rendering specifications is that Apple QuickTime does not belong in a printing master .
/hh
References:
John Markoff, Adobe electronic paper software for all systems, 1991
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/22/business/technology-adobe-tackles-the-paper-gl ut-with-a-software-for-all-systems.html?pagewanted=1
Matthew Rothenberg, Quartz PDF is not properly repurposable
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,30085366,00.htm
John Zimmerer, PDF User Feedback 2003
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2642

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I’m not quite sure what you’re referencing as“misinformation” or “ridiculous statements,”
I was referring to these:
The iPad 2 Safari browser will not natively allow one todownload… anything.
Not true. It can download PDFs and Images. iOS apps are downloaded through the AppStore. But not allowing you to download just any old files is what keeps iOS free of viruses and malware. It's a security feature.
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So I tried to reset through iTunes.
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if one were to have their device jailbroken (yup, Apple, you lost in court, so deal with it…
Not true. Apple didn't lose anything in court. They never even went to court. It was the Copyright Office.
MULTIPLE countries sued you and found your tactics unlawful
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You cannot natively test your video, audio or microphone quality.
Not true. iPad is designed to be synced with iTunes, which is where your music and video is stored. The AppStore has many easily downloadable free apps that use the microphone. Videos and music can both very easily be played in the web browser.
they could have put a couple songs, videos, pictures or games on there.
Why? Your iTunes Library should already have songs and videos in. Pictures are easily obtainable, and so are many free games. People would complain like crazy if Apple put loads of crap nobody asked for on their iPad from new like you get on a Windows PC.
don’t just advertise and trick the end users into believing that they will have a nifty device right out of the box.
The iPad does everything it is advertised as doing right out of the box. But you will need videos, music and games to put on it. Same as a CD player plays CDs out of the box, but you need CDs to play on it. A car will take you on journeys, but you need gas to put in it.
Do you other users actually pay the extra couple hundred dollars for your programs like Apple wants?.
Of course people buy apps for their devices. There are hundreds of thousands of apps available. You expect Apple to provide you with every app ever made for free, pre-installed? Get real! People also buy applications for computers and other electronic devices, like they buy CDs for their CD player, DVDs for their DVD player. Nobody expects the manufacturers to provide them for free.
it’s ok for Apple to make their devices so minimalistic that it’s hardly better than a word processor with web browsing capability and a couple cameras?
If you had read reviews of the iPad and read the product info pages on Apple's website, you would've known EXACTLY what the iPad comes with in terms of hardware and software. It's all there in black and white.
I like my Kindle a lot more, it’s an ebook, advertised as an ebook, works as an ebook
The iPad does everything exactly as advertised - if it didn't, Apple would be in trouble with advertising regulators all over the world. Millions of people like the iPad, but if you prefer the Kindle, why buy an iPad? That makes no sense at all.
I have seen and read dozens upon dozens of reviews on the iPad and iPad 2…
Hmmm... somehow I doubt it. If you had, there is absolutely no way you could've had so much misinformation and misconceptions about what the iPad is, does, and comes with.

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