EText Authoring Resources

Tutorials

  • Persisting data in your iBooks Author widgets with local storage — This blog provides developers familiar with creating widgets through programs such as Dashcode the coding needed to allow widgets local storage of input so the data isn't lost after leaving a widget. The tutorial is written by a Bookry developer that creates widgets for iBooks Author.
  • iBook Author [sic] — This web page features video and text tutorials of journalism students from Emerson College. Content covers basics for beginners, template tools, insertion and modification of content/widgets, and distribution.
  • Apple's iBooks Author — This is Apple's official iBooks Author introductory page featuring interactive short step-by-step videos.
  • Embedding a YouTube Video in iBooks Author — This tutorial shows how to use MacOS X's Dashcode to create a YouTube widget for your iBooks project. It's very straightforward and easy to implement. Dashcode requires the installation of Apple's Xcode, part of the developer's package. Sign up for free.
  • Previewing in iBooks Author — This tutorial shows how to use the preview function in iBooks Author, including how to preview only certain sections or chapters of the iBook.
  • How to format video for iBooks — This YouTube video discusses how to format videos for inclusion in an iBook. This can be tricky to get to work right just through experimentation.

Presentations

  • iBooks Author keynote Jan 2012 — This is an in-depth presentation about iBooks Author by Roger Rosner (Vice President, Productivity Applications) at Apple Education Event Jan. 19, 2012.

Resources

  • Publishing With iBooks Author — An aggregate website with many articles/resources about iBooks Author, from using the program to news in general.
  • Templates — An introduction to templates in iBooks Author.
  • Making a Comic — This is a blog post that addresses a creative workaround for the lack of full-page support. It also makes a point to discuss what did and did not work for this user.
  • iBooks Author - Image compression — This page provides a discussion of the image compression used by iBooks Author when creating an iBook, including a suggestion and a potential hack to get the desired image into the iBook.