Supervised iPads & iBooks Author

Since Apple opened up Apple's supervision model a bit with iOS 7 (now able to browse the device and import photos/videos).. I was hoping Apple would also enable supervised iPads to function as preview devices when using iBooks Author.
iBooks Author has a preview button that will allow you to preview an ebook on an iPad. Unfortuntately when I connect a supervised iPad to iBooks Author, the device is greyed out and beside the device name is says "No ATC". Anyone have any ideas what this means?
cheers,
Evan

I fixed this by plugging in the iPad (I believe it would be similar on the iPhone or iTouch) to the computer, and starting iTunes on the computer. Also selecting "Trust this computer" on the iPad.
Then in iBooks author, the "No ATC" went away. I don't know what it means, but I presume it means it had No Authorization to Talk to the Computer - whether that is the correct acronym I don't know, but it is something like that. ;-)

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