Build and Publish your ePub using iBooks Author

By Sergio Vazquez

"Build & Publish your ePub using iBooks Author" is part of The Complete iBooks Author Course.
This book is intended for everyone who is seriously looking for a complete guide to preparing an interactive ebook, and working their way up the learning ladder to advanced tips and tricks to making a beautiful and powerful eBook with HTML5, videos, audio, image gallery, and Pop-Over widgets that help us take our eBooks to the next level.
Once we have our eBook ready for distribution, we'll take a look at how to publish it to the iBooks Store.
You can be a writer, a teacher, or even a publishing house looking to jump on this wonderful train to the future of digital publishing with interactive ebooks and iBooks Author.
This course is perfect for beginners and extremely helpful for people who are already iBooks Author users.
So, let's start authoring.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sergio Vazquez
• Release date: May 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393870036

Book preview

Chapter 1

Introduction

About this Course

This specific course called "Build & Publish your ePub using iBooks Author" is part of The Complete iBooks Author Course.

This course is intended for everyone who is seriously looking for a complete guide to preparing an interactive ebook, and working their way up the learning ladder to advanced tips and tricks to making a beautiful and powerful eBook with HTML5, videos, audio, image gallery, and Pop-Over widgets that helps us take our eBooks to the next level.

Once we have our eBook ready for distribution, we’ll take a look on how to publish it to the iBooks Store.

You can be a writer, a teacher, or even a publishing house looking to jump on this wonderful train to the future of digital publishing with interactive ebooks and iBooks Author.

This course is perfect for beginners and extremely helpful for people who are already iBooks Author users.

So, let’s begin this course, and start publishing in just a few days.

Important Notes:

1. The best way to take advantage of this eBook, is to read it with you in front of your Mac, and with iBooks Author opened because most of the information you read here won't be very clear unless you see it in iBooks Author.

2. Some lectures come with a link to complement the reading. Some links are to watch a video, or images so it's easier to understand the process.

About the Author

Sergio is the founder and director of digital-editorial, where he specializes in digital publishing in fields like: eBooks / iBooks, web development, virtual tours, podcasts, tutorials, and mobile apps. He has been passionate about learning and teaching since a young age, and because of this, he started with online tutorials and The Complete iBooks Author Course. He’s worked on hundreds of private, government, and individual projects.

Because of his lifestyle, he considers himself as a solopreneur because he’s self-employed, and works with people from around the world on different projects.

He loves what he does for a living because he gets to spend a lot of time with his wife and children, plus, he gets to travel to many places where he can always learn something new, and continue to do what he loves.

What We'll Cover

In this eBook, we will cover from the basics like installing iBooks Author and formatting text, to iBooks Author Widgets, as well as suggesting complementary software that makes building iBooks much easier and packed with powerful interactions. Here are the topics for this eBook:

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

About this Course

About the Author

What we'll cover

Quick look at iBA

Quick look at iBA

What’s an ePub3 eBook

Distributing ePubs

What we can do

Download and install

Interface

The View

CHAPTER 2

Text

Chapters and Sections

Adding and formatting text

Styles

TOC & Glossary

Tables

CHAPTER 3

Images and The Cover

Adding and Formatting Images

Create and Import a Cover

CHAPTER 4

Widgets

Gallery

Media

Pop-Over

HTML

CHAPTER 5

Preview & Export

Get an iBooks Account

Download iTunes Producer

Preview & Export

Export your ePub using iTunes Producer

iBooks and the iBooks Store

Closing thoughts

BONUS TOPICS

CHAPTER 6

eReaders

Other eReaders

Reading experience on other platforms