iBooks Author 927

Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore in a few simple steps. And before you know it, you're a published author.

Apple-designed templates

Give your book a great beginning with templates that include a choice of page designs with matching fonts, colors, and textures

Quickly customize your book with text and images, create new layouts, and even save a custom template

Easily add a cover, video introduction, table of contents, copyright page, dedication, and foreword

Beautiful text and layouts

Use a variety of text styles including custom fonts to give your book a rich yet consistent look

Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and media anywhere on the page

Import a chapter written in Pages or Microsoft Word and apply a great-looking layout from your current template

Add sophisticated mathematical expressions with new native equation editing using both LaTeX and MathML notation

Add any word to the glossary with a single click and easily include photos, images, charts, tables, and shapes next to any definition

Automatically create a portrait view of your landscape book, which allows readers to focus on the text

Multi-Touch widgets

Choose from a variety of widgets that add Multi-Touch interactivity to your book

Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, audio file, Keynote presentation, scrolling sidebar, dynamic pop-over, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book

Many widgets include placeholders for titles and captions and are automatically numbered so you can reference them in your main text

Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver

Export for iBookstore or iTunes U

Preview your book in iBooks on iPad to see how it looks and works

Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download in a few simple steps

Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to others

Export your book as a PDF file

Requirements

Mac OSX 10.7.4 or later

2GB of RAM

1.2GB of available disk space

Keynote '09 v5.2 or later (required for Keynote widgets)

iBooks 3.0 (required for previewing and book versioning)

iTunes Producer v2.8 (required for book publishing)

Network Connection (required for book publishing)