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There are frustrations in publishing with iBooks Author… Communicating with Apple is not one of the more enjoyable features of publishing iBooks, as anyone who has clicked on ‘Contact us’ at iTunes Connect will confirm.
Using iBooks Author – layout and typography
One of the pleasures of using iBooks Author is that it will give you as much structure, or as little, as you want. You stay in control.
Using iBooks Author – fixed layout or flowable?
I’ve just finished formatting Grammar for Teachers as an iBook, using iBooks Author, Apple’s free app for making iBooks. In this article I’ll set out what I think are the most important features for educational authors like me. In later articles I’ll explain a bit more about how it can be used.
5 reasons for not using iBooks Author
… and why I am using it I started using iBooks Author just over three weeks ago. In that time I have reformatted one of my books, Grammar for Teachers (more details here), using this new Apple software, turning it into an attractive, colourful, interactive textbook.
Essay writing: make a plan.
A standard piece of advice about essay writing is that you should make a plan. I used to think – and some people still do think – that this is a linear process: generate ideas —> research —> plan. But of course it isn’t as simple as that.