Unlike the proverbial doghouse in which iBooks Author has languished over the last half-decade, Apple has updated Pages regularly and with at least a modicum of fanfare so that people know it exists. In many ways, Pages has become the rich media authoring app that iBooks Author aspired to be. We can hope that Apple brings more of the iBooks Author widgets to future versions of Pages.
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The most basic of authoring tools perhaps is keynote/PowerPoint. The most complex being programming and XCode. So many wide gaps in between bar website creation tools, perhaps Hype being the most interesting recent entry. Hard to identify a home for their outcomes other than the web. It all feels underdone to me, kind of a missed opportunity.
In the other publishing windows, most information will be pre-filled, though you can change most of the metadata or other options. For example, you can specify a new page range for your sample, add a new category for your book, and more.
2) Know your publication type. Apple gives authors a few options for what type of book they want to publish: Digital Only, New Release, or Other. As the name denotes, New Release refers to books that are within seven months of their publication date.
Thx, also amazon does in this way; are you aware of any company which would split sales among multiple authors or between author and translator (that actually is my problem); how could I find a solution?
Hello! I have a few questions, can you answer me if I ask:1- apple store wants $ 99 a year, is this valid for ibooks author?2- Can I use a double name as a publisher after the account is approved? (Pseudonym, nickname, DBA) eg: publisher: free publisher author: tiny naruto3-Is there a deadline for account approval and book publication?4- Can we receive payments directly to our bank account without paypal or payoneer? Thank you.
There are a lot of companies out there advertising their services to self-publishing authors. Some of them are reputable but many of them are vanity presses looking to take advantage of aspiring authors.
Boasting an easy-to-use interface and reliable customer service, BookBaby is an option for many first-time self-publishing authors. To learn more about BookBaby, go to this review.
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Updates a custom column for the total number of books written by each author for every book in your library. It has functionality that standard Calibre does not provide, especially the ability to search using queries constructed with integers. Example: ((#abc_numeric:">6") and (#abc_numeric:"
Apple Books supports two book types: EPUB (.epub) which can be created with Pages or other third-party tools and Multi-Touch (.ibooks) that can be created using the application iBooks Author. EPUB can be used to create Flowing books and Fixed Layout books.
Multi-Touch books are created using the iBooks Author application, which generates books using the Apple-developed Apple Books Format (.ibooks). Multi-Touch books can contain a wide variety of interactive elements, which makes them particularly well-suited for textbooks, cookbooks, history books, and picture books. Apple Books only accepts Multi-Touch books made with the latest version of iBooks Author.
Landmarks can also be used to define the start page of a Flowing book, which is the first page a reader will see the first time they open a book. Apple Books opens to the first landmark item that contains the epub:type value of "ibooks:reader-start-page". If that value is not specified in the Landmarks navigation structure, Apple Books opens to the first spine item that contains one of the following epub:type landmarks values:
Custom Class Name: If the book is not defined as following the EBPAJ guide, you can define a custom class name for which Apple Books will respect an image's dimensions. The custom class name is defined in the metadata section of the Package Document (.opf) file, and requires the inclusion of the ibooks prefix in the package element. For example:
Since the EPUB format is based on HTML, links can be used to augment and enhance book content. Links can be within a document, as in the case of an index or endnotes, or can link to the web or other external resources such as an author or publisher website.
In a book made using iBooks Author, you can link from an HTML widget to another place in the same book. You can link to a specific location, such as a figure, chapter, section, or page number. Links within the same book in an HTML Widget use a standardized format: ibooks:///# followed by the link type, followed by the content number. For example:
Each page of an interactive, Fixed Layout book is a separate web view, similar to two Safari windows next to each other. Content is isolated on each page with the spine as a firm barrier between the two pages. The body must have dimensions defined in the CSS identical to the aspect ratio of the viewport dimensions.
The Apple Books JavaScript Library (ibooks.js) is a collection of pre-written JavaScript that makes it easier to develop books with JavaScript interactivity for Apple Books. The Apple Books JS Library provides functionality to:
Sometimes, a developer wants to fire a delayed event after the content has loaded. By adding ibooks-deferred-event to an element, ibooks.js will append a CSS class active to the target element after a delay, by default this value in milliseconds is 1000. This delay can be defined on a per element basis by adding a HTML attribute data-deferred-event-delay and setting the desired value in milliseconds.
Any element with a CSS class ibooks-stampable will act as a parent container for stamp-able elements. Stamp-able elements respond to touch gestures; on touch, ibooks.js will append an empty element with the CSS class stamp to the parent container. You can then style the appended element.
ibooks.js relies on a SVG path to define a valid touch area; without a SVG path ibooks.js will not respond to touch events. It is worth noting that SVG patches are especially useful when defining irregular shaped hit areas, such as hills.
Any HTML element can be used to trigger audio by appending the CSS class ibooks-media-audio and defining a value for the HTML attribute data-ibooks-audio-src. Additionally, the audio source playhead can be reset each time the element is touched by defining data-ibooks-audio-reset-on-play. Read aloud can be paused after the media has played or is paused by setting an HTML attribute: "ibooks:pause-readaloud" to "true". See Embedding Read Aloud Controls for more information.
By default, Japanese and Chinese books scroll horizontally, while all other languages scroll vertically. To redefine the scroll direction, the book must include the following metadata in the .opf file: "ibooks:scroll-axis". Possible values are vertical, horizontal, and default. For example:
To add an ambient soundtrack to your book, include an audio element with the attribute epub:type="ibooks:soundtrack" and include both the xmlns:epub namespace and the epub:prefix="ibooks:" namespace (see the code example below).
If a book contains Media Overlays, the read aloud controls automatically appear in the Apple Books toolbar. However, you may also embed Start, Stop, and toggle controls in the content of the book by including the readaloud attribute. If you include this attribute, you must also include the ibooks namespace and prefix in .
Added information on support for EPUB 3. Added versioning. Added support for Gaiji. Made changes to Read Aloud books based on new EPUB 3 support. Changed how linking works. Changed ibook.js to ibooks.js (and iBook JS to iBooks JS) to reflect the updated name. Updated namespace throughout. Removed all sections relevant to EPUB 2; refer to the Apple Books Asset Guide 5.0 for EPUB 2.
Changed the name of iBooks and iBooks Store to Apple Books throughout, except the names of prior versions of this guide in Revision History and the names of prior versions of the iBooks app. Tags, attribute names, attribute values, and file names used in the XML with ibooks in them have not changed. The name of iBooks Author and the .ibooks extension have also not changed.
Previously, in a Fixed Layout book with two documents per spread, iBooks maintained a book-like appearance by including the book spine, pages, and page curl. The ibooks:binding property could be used to override the book-like appearance. iBooks no longer supports the book-like appearance for Fixed Layout books. Any text and examples that included the binding property have been removed from this guide.
In a book made using iBooks Author, you can link from an HTML widget to another place within the same book, or you can link to an EPUB (.epub) book or to another Multi-Touch (.ibooks) book. When linking to a Multi-Touch book, you can link to a specific location, such as a figure, chapter, section, or page number. See Links for more information.
By default, Japanese and Chinese books scroll horizontally, while all other languages scroll vertically. You can redefine the scroll direction using the "ibooks:scroll-axis" property in the OPF .opf file. See Scrolling in Flowing Books for an example.
Corrected typos in the Book Versioning section, and in the Table of Contents and Ambient Soundtrack sections in the Fixed Layout Books chapter. In these sections, a space was missing between ibooks: and http:// in the prefix examples. Note that the space between ibooks: and http:// is important; it needs to be a single, regular space character and not a return, non-breaking space, or any other kind of whitespace. 2ff7e9595c
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