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View Shared Resources. 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) Hands on: iBooks Author effortless to use, but iPad-only. At Thursday’s education event, Apple put glee into the heart of every ebook publisher when it unveiled iBooks Author, the company’s new ebook authoring tool.

Hands on: iBooks Author effortless to use, but iPad-only

Between the WYSIWYG editing, Pages and Word import, and the free price tag, the app sounded too good to be true. While Apple showcased iBooks Author as part of its push to get more iPad-friendly textbooks onto its iBookstore, this ebook creator can be used by any publisher—Apple’s Phil Schiller specifically mentioned cookbooks and travel books among other publications when touting the app. Naturally, after all my griping and wishes over such a tool, I had to take it for a spin: Here’s what I’ve discovered.

From appearances alone, iBooks Author fits in right alongside the company’s iWork suite—no surprises there, since it was reportedly developed under the watchful eye of Roger Rosen, vice president of productivity software at Apple. Templates are easily fiddled with—as with iWork, it’s simple to create and save your own styles. iBooks Author: Multi-Touch Book Creation With a Big Catch. While it’s no secret that iBooks hasn’t been a runaway success as Apple had hoped, the company is trying their hand at revolutionizing the book industry once more -but this time they’ve shifted their efforts towards the education market.

iBooks Author: Multi-Touch Book Creation With a Big Catch

Along with the new iBooks 2, Apple introduced iBooks Author, their simplistic, yet feature-rich solution for creating textbooks, cookbooks, and just about any other kind of book, for the iPad. In making the app both user-friendly and free, Apple is clearly striving to make publishing available “for the rest of us”. Although the app is free, many will argue that the price of staying within the Apple ecosystem is too high for the budding author. So do the benefits outweigh the negatives? Read on. Interface The iBooks Author interface should be familiar to most Mac users.

Anyone familiar with the look and feel of the iWork suite of apps should feel right at home in iBooks Author. Writing your Book Historically, publishing an ebook was no easy task. Conclusion. 5 Ideas for using iBooks Author and iBooks 2 « iteach Lounge. Introduction When the original iPad first arrived there was buzz about how this device could change education.

5 Ideas for using iBooks Author and iBooks 2 « iteach Lounge

Schools began adopting iPad programs. The iPad is an informational consumption device through which a learner can consume massive amounts of information through their ear and eye channels. Learners could even customize the information slightly, a tenet of UDL. If a learner needed larger text they could pinch and zoom with their hands and of course turn up or down any audio. Student Produced Lessons The big buzz right now about Apple’s new iBooks 2 and iBooks Author app is the interactivity textbook publishers can bring to the classroom. Inclusive Design Awareness. iPad for Teaching & Learning.

Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author. Apple’s recent special event revealed the changes they plan to make in the world of publishing.

Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author

Not only was iBooks 2 meant to open the door for textbook sales, but the Mac companion app, iBooks Author, could also make the textbooks. Better yet, both apps are free. While iBooks 2 is innocent enough, Author is more than it appears on the surface. How could writers not like the pitch? Create your own e-books in a sleek, easy-to-use app (similar to the iWork suite), and put them into iBooks. But as PCMag’s Sascha Segan points out, doing so is a “devil’s bargain.” “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.”

The legalese explains it too, but at least Apple was nice enough to put it into layman’s terms. What are the implications of this?