Nellie McKesson explains the functioning of iBooks Author: Apple's new app for the creation of dynamic and interactive ebooks

1. iBooks Author?
Nellie McKesson
eBooks Operations Manager
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
@NellieMcKesson

2. January 2012:
Interactive, Hands-On
Tool for Creating
eBooks

3. Perfect Content
Lock-In

4. Bulk Purchasing!...

5. ...But the Book Belongs
to the Student

6. Coming Soon:
Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, New
Zealand, Spain, and United
Kingdom

7. Multi-OS =
Multi-Headaches

8. Apple Might Reject You

9. Inkling
• Similar interactivity
• More complex creation
• Multi-device, safely
• Sales models?

10. Vook
• Simple content creation
• Limited interactivity
• ePub / kf8 only
• Distribution, not sales

11. More Web Tools!

12. iBooks Author:
Useable Now

13. Mind the Jump