Apple’s iBooks Author Tool for Creating Interactive Ebooks

Posted: January 30, 2012

[caption id="attachment_9636" align="alignright" width="300"]© Adam Radosavljevic - Fotolia.com[/caption]Apple’s has launched a new ebook creation tool, iBooks Author. It is a Mac-only software application for creating media-rich, interactive books for the iPad. This new app was launched by Apple’s Phil Schiller at a special event in New York’s Guggenheim Museum on Thursday 19th January. Apple also announced the release of iBooks 2, an update to their iBooks reading application.

At the launch Apple positioned iBooks Author as an ideal solution for textbooks that will not only contain rich, interactive content but can easily be updated. Schiller said “Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting education product yet. With 1.5 million iPads already in use in education institutions, including over 1,000 one-to-one deployments, iPad is rapidly being adopted by schools across the US and around the world.”

With iBooks Author, authors can easily add interactive animations, diagrams, photos, audio and video to their ebooks. It is an easy app to use and involves dragging and dropping your content into some “preprepared” templates.

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