Apple sent out an email yesterday to iBooks Author users, informing them that the nine-year-old macOS app will be discontinued on 1 July, and removed from the App Store. From...Continue reading
Category: iBooks Author
Pages Now Publishes Directly to Apple Books
Apple is now promoting their word processing app with the pitch that you can use it to publish a book to Apple Books: Publish your book directly to Apple Books...Continue reading
What We Know About the New Apple Pages
When Apple launched a new ebook-focused version of Pages last week, some took it to mean that Apple was junking iBooks Author in favor of Pages. Others mistakenly saw this...Continue reading
Apple Doesn’t Love iBooks
Every so often a pundit makes the prediction that _this_ will be the year that Apple gets interested in iBooks (and, for example, launch iBooks apps for Android), but as but...Continue reading
iBooks Author 2.5 Brings New Templates for Interactive Epub eBooks
Apple rolled out a new update this week for its ebook-making app for the Mac. I am still waiting to hear back from users, but according to the changelog iBooks...Continue reading
Correction: iBooks Author Updated, Can Now Make and Export Epub3 Files
Apple got a lot of attention for yesterday’s iOS 8.4 update, but that wasn’t the only release to come down the pipe. The company also released a new version of iBooks Author which...Continue reading
Multi-touch iBooks on the iPhone: Like a PDF, Only From Apple
Pundits have been hoping for a couple years now that Apple would give the iPhone support for ebooks made with iBooks Author, and now that it has arrived I do not think...Continue reading
iOS 8.4 to Bring Textbooks and iPad-Only iBooks to the iPhone
We’ve known for several weeks now that the next version of Apple’s mobile OS would merge audiobooks into the iBooks app. Now I can report that isn’t the only major...Continue reading
iBooks Author Updated With InDesign and Epub Importer
Apple rolled out a new update for their ebook making app yesterday with a few major updates. The app is still limited to only running on OSX, but on the...Continue reading