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How to publish on iTunes. Step 1 - create an iTunes Connect account - Book Creator for iPad app. 35 Flares Twitter 29 Facebook 4 Google+ 2 Pin It Share 0 35 Flares × This is the first in a series of guides aimed at enabling Book Creator users to publish their books in the iBookstore. >> Step 2: Install iTunes Producer>> Step 3: Add your book to iTunes Producer What you’ll need: An Apple IDA Mac running OS X v10.6 or higherA valid email accountDigital rights to the book you want to publish Before we get started, it’s worth saying that the advantage of using Book Creator for iPad to create your book is that you will own the digital rights to the book, plus all the formatting and technical requirements for publishing an ebook on the iBookstore are taken care of for you.

Why publish to the iBookstore? For many authors, artists or businesses, publishing their creative works on the iBookstore is going to be part of their business model for making money. Setting up an iTunes Connect account. Using Book Creator to support autistic students - Book Creator for iPad app.

67 Flares Twitter 45 Facebook 18 Google+ 2 Pin It Share 2 2 67 Flares × Faced with the challenge of motivating a group of disenchanted kids, this teacher had a brainwave. Jon Smith is a Technology Integration Specialist for Alliance City Schools. He was a special education teacher for 12 years and continues to have a desire to allow special education students to create wonderful content to enhance their learning.

Jon has published several books on iTunes with his students, which can be found at mrsmithtrt.weebly.com/class-ebooks They were going to become great writers if it killed me… I was teaching special education students in grades 5 and 6 in an inner city school in Canton, Ohio. Then, two years ago, Apple introduced a software product called iBooks Author and things would change for me forever. Within three months we had written and published three ebooks… For the first time people were given the opportunity to self-publish in an easy manner.

And then we started using Book Creator… New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia. Posted by Matthew Roth on September 17, 2012 We’re happy to announce that a new EPUB export feature has been enabled on English Wikipedia. You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks. These can be read on a broad range of devices, like mobile phones, tablets and e-ink based e-book readers. Using an e-book to read Wikipedia articles has a number of advantages. Although mobile online access is becoming more prevalent, it is still not available everywhere. “EPUB files can be used very easily in an offline environment” said Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile at the Wikimedia Foundation. Click the image above to watch an instructional video on the e-book feature To create your personal e-book you have to activate the ‘Create a book’ link located in the left sidebar of Wikipedia in the ‘print/export’ section.

EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Christoph Kepper, brainbot technologies. How A 5-Year-Old Used An iPad To Become A Published Author. In 2012 John Tambunan became one of the youngest ever publishers on Apple’s iBookstore. His book ‘Little Fish’ has since been downloaded across the world over 7,800 times. It all began when John started telling his mum, Jane Ross, about the lake near their house where he loves to go and catch fish. Such was John’s enthusiasm, Jane decided to make a book about his experience. Taking John down to the lake, she took photos on her iPhone along the way and when they returned, they sat down together and made an ebook using Book Creator for iPad.

John chose the photos and sentences for the book, and with his mum’s help read aloud each page and saved the audio to the book. Little Fish in a big pond John and Jane got such a good reaction to this book from classmates and friends that they decided to publish the book on the iBookstore. It’s worth pointing out at this point that Jane Ross is an Apple Distinguished Educator who specialises in iPad teaching in Asia!

Why was this book so popular? Bloxp, the blog to ebook exporter. Bloxp, the blog to ebook exporter. Create Ebooks - Papyrus Editor. 8 Powerful Apps To Help You Create Books On The iPad. Want to self-publish a novel? Get your classroom materials into the hands of others? Share your brilliant insight and call yourself an author? Then publishing on the iPad may be something worth considering. The good news is that it’s never been easier to quickly and easily get your digital pen flowing. So try out some of these apps and it should hopefully inspire you to become a digital author sooner rather than later.

Book Creator Book Creator is simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Book Writer Book Writer is useful app to make books with iPhone/iPad! StoryBuddy 2 Create stories with drawings, photos, text, and audio recording! Scribble My Story Scribble My Story is a junior version of the popular Scribble Press App. StoryKit Create an electronic storybook with StoryKit . Picturebook: School Edition Create and share your very own illustrated stories in a few simple steps! Story Creator BONUS! LibriVox. 8 Powerful Apps To Help You Create Books On The iPad. How to read iBooks on Mac / PC. I just bought a MacBook air and I want to read iBooks from my iPhone on it. I can see the books in my iTunes, but I can't work out how to read them. Unfortunately, there isn't an iBooks reader application for Mac OS X that can open DRM protected books from the iBookstore. The ebooks can be read only on iPad, iPhone, iPod with iBooks app.

But do not worry about this, we will tell you two methods to solve it. When your ebooks are not protected by DRM 1. First, connect your iPad or iPhone with your computer, then open iTunes on your computer, if you use the same ID in your Apple devices, you will see books from other devices in your iTune. 2. 3. 4. Adobe Digital Editions, or Nook for PC/Mac can be the best choice for reading. Adobe Digital Editions is ebook reader software from Adobe Systems built using Adobe Flash.

Note: the method above is only for reading ebooks without drm limitation, if you have bought a drm restricted iBooks, please refer to the second method. Click here to download it. Creative Book Builder - All about apps in YOUR classroom! Creating assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write Use Creative Book Builder to have students design an eBook to educate others about a core content topic.

Students could develop text, video, and audio to embed in their book. Science students could formulate a hypothesis for an independent experiment, assemble their data, then write about their results. Evaluating appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate Use Creative Book Builder in a Social Studies classroom by having students argue that a controversial historical figure is either a hero or a villain. Analyzing appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test Use Creative Book Builder in a Language Arts classroom to compare and contrast characters by embedding a video of students giving short character monologues, and examine the credibility of characters by writing text.

Applying Understanding Remembering Download File. Bloxp, the blog to ebook exporter. 26 iBooks Author How-to Videos. iBooks Generator.