Producing short history lessons with iBooks author?

For years I have produced history lessons and provided them as free PDFs on my website. I'd like to offer short history lessons (with primary historic documents and images) via iBooks in iTunes U. I expect them to run only 10-12 pages.
Is there any minimum length for iBook content?
Has anyone seen any shorter iBook content made with iBook Author offered?
I can't seem to find any examples in iTunes U or in iBooks.

Hank Feng's "Earth and Moon" and the new Biosphere book are very short but will serve you well as examples. I am working on 2 page teaching models for the UN's Girl Education in Conflict-Zone program so its not about quantitiy but "quality" as we instructional design professor always tell our students.

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Yes. Put it on your own server, and/or send it out via email.

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https://discussions.apple.com/message/17981772#17981772#17981772
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How do I browse the whole list of Made with iBooks Author?

As I remember, before major update of iTunes for mac, I could browse the whole list of "Made with iBooks Author".
However, I can't find the way to browse the whole list of "Made with iBooks Author".
Is the way of browsing disappeared, or changed?
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After the major update of iTunes for mac, It just disappeared
I really want to browse the whole list of it so I can buy the books which was made with iBooks Author.

Pull down View > Show Sidebar.

HT5071 I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

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Working with ibooks Author

Hey guys. I've recently been doing some work with ibooks Author. I'm not sure if this is the subreddit to post my question to, so sorry if its not. My question is: How do you string a video across multiple pages within the document. I'm trying not to bloat my file size with extra videos if there is away to run one in the background. Thanks!

Page by page is it - no backgrounding as you require.
When a user navigates to another page, assets such as your example are then ignored for, and replaced by, assets on the next.
See Optimizing performance in your iBooks Author books. Note too that iBA will optimize video assets.
If your content is such that you risk exceeding the 2GB limit, consider publishing a series of editions, instead.

HT5213 Can you publish to iPhone with iBooks Author?

Can you publish to iPhone with iBooks Author?

No, sorry.
iBooks Author creates a hybrid epub that works on iPad only.
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Does the iPad 1 support ibooks made with ibooks author?

Well, i'm planning on buying an ipad 1 because is still capable and is cheaper than the 2 right now, and something wich is very frustrating for me is, do some apps are still fully compatible? as the title say's, the new books made with ibooks author are compatible?

With the current software ..books created using iBooks Author cannot be viewed on iPhones.
iBooks Author creates books that can only...be used with iPads and on Macs with Mavericks installed, by using iBooks.
Thats it...no rumours. Blogs or to be more accurate...some of those who contribute to them seem to either be totally stupid, or like to make themselves look as if they have inside knowledge.
Apple created iBooks Author to allow self publishers create and publish books to the store. But not just novels or text only type books. iBA made these books allow audio / video ..and much much more than any novel. That being so....most interactive multi media books will not really display well on a screen the size if the iPhone.
Apple are more concerned in getting iPads in use more by business and education at all levels.
The only rumour that may well become fact is a larger sized screen for a bigger iPad mid to late 2014.

Trying to upload my ibook crafted with ibook-author but since I have two iTunes accounts, I keep getting a message that another person (me) is trying to use my tax id to distribute my book. Anyway out of this jam? The iTunes folks seem lost on this too

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In terms of control over this issue, the ranking is thus...
iTune folks
You
us/anyone else.
We can't do anything but prompt you to interact with Apple.

IBook created with iBooks Author does not appear on iPhone

Hi,
My daughter created and published a book using iBooks Author but it only shows up in the iPad and Mac version of iBooks.
Is there a way to get it to work on the iPhone iBooks store as well?
Thank you for your courage.

I found the answer here. I guess I just didn't dig long enough!
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How to create Protein or Chemical structures in .pdb or .mol format for use with iBooks Author. Please help.

Dear Community,
There are a large variety of software packages used by Chemists and Biologists to view and manipulate Protein and Chemical structures in 3D. They typically have formats such as .pdb, or .mol. I have looked around and none of the software packages that I currently use allow me to export to the COLLADA (.dae) format.
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I believe that Apple should have provided an easily way to get Pymol images into iBooks Author as VRML has been the de facto standard. After a number of days, I have a method which works, but this much effort should not be necessary. Anyway here it is.
1) Set the viewport in Pymol to 512,384 to do this in the command window type
viewport 512,384
Note, I'm not totally sure you need to do this.
2) Draw you image in Pymol and output the image in VRML format, to do that
File -> Save Image As -> VRML 2 ...
I'll assume that you have given the file the name "pymol_output", you actual get pymol_output.wrl
3) In a terminal window go to the folder where the above file is located and issue the following command. This removes some stuff that messes up the lightening
sed '9,15d' pymol_output.wrl > bender_in.wrl
4) Next you need blender. You can download it from
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
5) Open Blender. In the upper right corner in the Scene section
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right click on Cube and delete it
right click on Camera and delete it
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6) Either open empty_blender_file.blend or continue from #5 and read in the file from #3
File -> import->X3D Extensible 3D (.x3d/.wrl)
this reads in the file
7) Write out the file in collada .dae format
File->export->collada (.dae)
Done. This file will read into iBooks Author and have somewhat uniform lighting. By the way, .dae files can be opened an checked in Preview. Its easier than going back and forth into the iPad, since you can rotate the image in Preview.
Hope this helps, let me know if it works for you and if you have any suggestions.
Finally someone needs to write a one step VRML and X3D to collada converter that will work with PyMol and Chimera etc.
Have fun!

Can I sell books made with iBooks Author in the UK iTunes store?

Hi all,
I'm a UK-based musician who publishes a range of tuition books on playing the bass guitar. I've spent the last few months devleoping one of these books in iBooks Author, and the end results are really impressive. I submitted the book to the iTunes store last week (after setting up a US Tax ID etc) and it was approved in the US store yesterday. Here's a link to the relevant page:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bass-players-guide-to-scales/id534940432?mt=13
My question is, is there any way I can make this book available to customers in all countries? I filled in all the info/pricing etc for all countries when I uploaded the book, but it's only approved for sale in the United States so far. Is there just a delay in the other stores being approved or can it only be the US for textbooks? I notice that the UK iTunes store does not have a textbooks category. Am getting worried now that I shouldn't have put it in the Textbooks category, although I don't remember being able to choose another option.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Stuart

It is possible to publish books created in iBooks Author outside of the US. They will just not be able to appear in the Textbooks category as it's currently a US only category.
I can see in the UK store that you've got two editions of the same book for sale. One has screen grabs and is clearly filled with iBA features for £9.99 and the other at £6.49 with no preview images which I assume is in standard ePub format - both are in the Arts & Entertainment -> Music category.
Congrats!

HT5067 When using a Keynote Widget with iBooks Author, do the transitions and builds between Keynote slides appear in the iPad preview version of the iBook, or only in the finished product?

I'm using the Keynote Widget in iBooks Author, and the Keynote presentation uses the Magic move transition between slides. When I preview the iBook on a new iPad, the Magic move transitions don't show up (i.e. the transition from slide to slide is standard, not Magic move). Any suggestions?

Hyperlinks and magic move should work but don't. However I found the following as a workaround for me. Use three slides instead of two to generate the magic move effect in Keynote presentations on Ibooks using hyperlinks only. As an example
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For some reason having an extra slide makes magic move work even though it is not needed on the mac. I hpe this helps.

Existing books re-created with iBooks Author

Alright, I am working for a company who is publishing and selling harcopy books.
Now, I used iBooks Author to create one of these books into iBooks and I am about to sign-up with Apple to have this book into the Store but I want to be sure that I will still have the rights to sell the hard copy of this book as in the license agreement, it says:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a “Work”), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.
Does that mean that I can only sell this ebook via Apple and can still sell the hard copies to the shops?
I really want to make sure, I am not turning over my copyrights to Apple or some stuff like that.
I would prefer that someone from Apple answers to this question as this is quite an important matter for me.

Your content is under your control.
From iBA documentation:
"Even if you don’t submit your book to the iBookstore, you can still export a book that you can distribute yourself."
Note these forums are user supported.
You can try [email protected]

Legal worries with iBooks Author

Hi,
I saw the advertisement for iBooks Author and it works perfectly for my situation as a writer. This will be my first book ever and I was amazed by the possibility of using pictures in the text. My only concern with it is in terms of copy rights. Based on the video it looks I can use pictures from my profile and post them in the book which is great, but how about pictures I might need from Internet? How Apple makes things legal in terms of the usage of text, pictures or any other material from the web? Do I need to have a lawyer from my side when I publish my book? Does Apple offer legal support if a copy right issue is questioned? These are my worries.
I will appreciate your responses.
Thanks,
Heriberto

Existing, applicable copyright law would apply to any content used in your book. If you do not own the rights to a content item, you must obtain the proper license and permission to use it. Apple cannot cure this on your behalf. If you intend to profit from any content which is not your own, I recommend the consultation of a licensed attorney with knowledge of contracts and the applicable copyright law, as the ramifications of any missteps elevate quickly at that point. Note that I am not an attorney, and with this reply do not pretend or intend to give legal advice.

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