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Hands on: iBooks Author At Thursday's education event, Apple put glee into the heart of every ebook publisher with the announcement of iBooks Author, the company's new ebook authoring tool. Naturally, after all her griping and wishes over such an app, staff editor Serenity Caldwell had to take it for a spin: Here's what she discovered. iBooks Author Offers Free E-Textbook Creation iBooks Author is a free Mac app designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks for the iBooks 2 app. Apple's iBooks 2, iBooks Author: Bids to own publishing's future Apple's new iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U apps are moves to capture the future of education and self-publishing. The apps are also a move to continue to build on the success Apple had under the late Steve Jobs. Apple iBooks Author: Top 10 Limitations Despite Taking Sting Out of Book Creation Though there is no upfront fee to create the e-book titles and though it must be acknowledged that it is a "total miracle" in terms of time savings (as Roger Rosner, Apple VP for Productivity Software, rightly said), the new iBooks Author has several limitations. Apple Targets Educators Via iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U App Apple on Thursday jumped deeper into the education space with the launch of iBooks 2 for textbooks, a custom e-book creation platform dubbed iBooks Author, and an expanded iTunes U app that's also now accessible to K-12 educators. Apple Lets You Make Your Own Books, Announces iBooks Author App Apple announced a new iBooks Author App on Thursday that makes creating an Apple ebook a drag-and-drop process. Apple's new iBooks Author targets e-book creators Apple's new iBooks Author software lets people create iBooks-compatible books from document files. (Credit: Apple) Although Apple's education event in New York focused on students, the company today also unveiled a new author platform. Dubbed iBooks Author, the free Mac OS X application lets authors create textbooks and other books with simple drag-and-drop mechanisms. According to Apple, the ... Apple eyes authors with new iBooks Author app Apple shows off iBooks Author at its NYC event. (Credit: Bridget Carey/CNET) Although Apple's New York City event focused on students, the company today also unveiled a new author platform. Dubbed iBooks Author, the free Mac OS X application lets authors create both textbooks and books with simple drag-and-drop mechanisms. According to Apple, the application gives authors basic templates to ... Apple Announcement: iBooks 2, iBooks Author for Digital Textbooks Apple, which changed music with its iPod and mobile communications with the iPhone, said today it was offering software that would reinvent the school textbook. It was a project inspired by Apple's late co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. "There's a lot that's talked about that... Quick Look: iBooks Author Apple's iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company's latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to readers through interactive multimedia book are now greater than ever. iBooks Author is a free Mac app ...
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