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Download iBooks Author for macOS 10.11 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of. Submit your book to Apple Books for sale or free download in a few simple steps.
Now anyone can create stunning textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPhone, iPad, and 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 iOS device or Mac at any time. Then submit your finished work to Apple Books 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 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 Apple Books or iTunes U
• Preview your book in Apple Books on iPhone, iPad and on Mac to see how it looks and works
• Submit your book to Apple Books for sale or free download in a few simple steps
• Export your book to share on iTunes U or to give to others
• Export your book as a PDF file
Requirements
• macOS 10.11 or later
• 2GB of RAM
• 1.2GB of available disk space
• Keynote 6.0 or later (required for importing presentations created in Keynote 6.0+)
• Pages 5.0 or later (required for importing documents created in Pages 5.0+)
• iBooks for iOS 4.3 or later (required for previewing on an iOS device)
• iBooks for Mac 1.3 or later (required for previewing on Mac)
• iTunes Producer 2.9 or later (required for book publishing)
• Network Connection (required for book publishing)
What’s New
This update includes stability and performance improvements.
Good but not great yet and tech support isn’t the best
For the most part, it’s a very good way to create an electronic book, but it has some quirks. The one that bothers me most is that creating page breaks doesn’t work as it should. It also bothers me that you can't easily switch templates, so it’s highly advisable to decide beforehand whether you want Apple-specific books (landscape or portrait) or somewhat more generally applicable books (epub). I wish that the app itself would point that out and be much more specific and clear about the tradeoffs.
But mostly my complaints are about the support staff. They don’t seem to be up to Apple standards, from my experience at least. I was trying to convince them that pagination had a bug, but kept getting irrelevant negative responses, so I finally gave up. I also got mixed messages about the tradeoffs between the templates. And, surprisingly, two of them I talked to told me that you cannot migrate from an epub template to landscape or portrait, that is, that you have to cut and paste between the two. But that turns out to be wrong. You can migrate (just use 'File/New from ePub File' to import a .epub version of your book), although it’s a far from perfect process (e.g., galleries don’t translate properly).
Expectations are so high for this app that its open for poor reviews BUT...
For free you will not fined a better app on the market anywhere that can do what this app does. I have published books many books and ran into to all kinds of normal challenges only to find I was able to work around them with a little effort. Now I am woking on an animated treasure hunting book for children. Already I am so excited I want to release the first chapter without finishing the rest. Even the professionals will admit what they get for free is fantastic in this app. The publishing to billions is another, NO WHERE TO BE FOUND oversight by those with the low ratings. Don't let those wanting the app to be developed fast for them deter you from trying it. You will love it and agree with this review. In this case low stars simply mean they love it and want more yesterday! Notice how none of the low rating reviews state they will stop or quit using the app??? That says it all doesn't it? Try it yourself and enjoy the power of publishing your own work. For me I will gladly pay the cost if Apple ever so demands.
Not well designed for professional publishing.
Prior to this iBooks App, I have used and highly recommended Apple’s Pages application in its iWorks suite, for formatting both iBooks and printed books and magazines, suitable for professional authors and publishers. The Pages app accommodated 2-page layout “spreads” or “double-truck” formats for print publications, where left-hand pages allowed wider right margins, and right-hand pages allowed wider left margins, to leave a “gutter” width based on the number of pages in a printed book. Unfortunately, the new version of Pages omitted the 2-page spread option, making it worthless for print books.
So I downloaded iBooks Author, hoping for a solution. But I can’t find it. This application allows horizontal layouts that look like 2-page spreads (for iPads and iPhones), but they don’t work for numbered left and right pages in print books.
Despite the beautiful graphics and video capabilities, a serious author or publisher cannot stay in business selling only iBooks. The Pages 09 app was perfect for professionals, but it’s no longer compatible with current Mac operating systems. My entire library of personal and client books can no longer be revised or updated on Mac computers, and this iBooks version is not useful for established authors with broader markets to serve. (Darn it!)
Information
OS X 10.11 or later
English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Supports
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
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* Requires iBooks Author installed.
DesiGN for iBooks - Templates is a collection of over 300 compelling themes for Apple’s application for book creation and publishing. Browse the range of designs to find the ideal look, add your text and images, and publish your own book to iBookstore. Best of all, we add free templates every month!
The 300+ templates at hand cover various book categories:
-Academic
-Art
-Business
-Family
-Food
-General
-Portfolio
-Sport
-Travel
-Writer
and more will come soon.
Each design is smoothly customizable and allows you to explore the best of the book creation capabilities provided by iBooks Author.
Templates for iBooks Author are focused on straightforward content creation, so it is very easy to incorporate text, graphics, or even movies. You can also change colors, fonts, or styles, thus making your work look precisely the way you want. Add texts, charts, tables, or widgets anywhere on the pages with a single click.
The luxurious design and wide range of customization possibilities make sure you have all tools to create your perfect book!
** Purchase bundle and future updates with new templates You’ll get free. **
What’s New
• The new version improves compatibility with a new version of macOS.
• macOS Mojave Dark Mode integration.
• Stability improvements.
• Do You have any requested template for unique layout work? Write to us: support@graphicnode.com
Non-functional
This may have been a good app at one time.
Now you can’t even download or update it.
Developer Response,
Hello GilHero,
We have updated the app for better functionality. Please give a try.
Help Necessary
How To Download Free Ibooks
Cannot open the files saying it is corrupt Please advise
Developer Response,
Hello,
In order to open templates, You must have iBooks Author app installed first.
Website: https://www.apple.com/lae/ibooks-author/
Additional Templates
I know some people had problems (and 1 person complains that all templates for iBooks are all the same) but sometimes additional starting places (fonts, colors, heading styles) are nice to have.
For each of these I was able to easily launch them into iBooks Author through this application, then save each different template as new. Now all of these show up in iBooks Author under “My Templates” (I coded the start of the names with “TiBAF” so I knew where they came from) and now I’m going to delete this app. I had no issues and it is nice to have some different things for inspiration.
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OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor
English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai
Ibook Author Download For Pc
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.