Balance Ragged Lines InDesign Layout Stopping Full Margin Layout We’re working on the layout of John Ed Mathison’s EPUB version of When God Redefines The Possible, now completed as a book for iPad and nearly ready for submission to Apple. But our wonderful client also wants versions for Kindle & Nook and so we’re working Read More
What Apple Didn’t Tell Us About Changes From iBooks Author Version 1 Series We published our book for iPad 21012: Science & Prophecy of the Ancient Maya by Dr. Mark Van Stone on Aug. 23, 2012 using the 1.0 version series of iBooks Author. The book cleared through Apple’s approval process in a day or Read More
iBooks Author Issues For Uploading A Book for iPad–Verify Your Destination Disk Isn’t Full It has been a struggle the past few hours to address several iBooks Author issues while trying to upload a new version of a book made in the pre-Oct. 23, 2012 versions of the software. The problems began with two reports Read More
Books for iPad–Redefining the Word “Book” Something needs to be done about what we call books for iPad. Apple says, “iBooks should be used to refer only to the application and is always plural. Do not use the word iBook to refer to a publication or to the general category of ebooks. Instead, say your Read More
iBooks 3 books for iPad now includes a powerful Social Media component that allows a reader to share content with others via Twitter, Facebook, Message, and Email. From an educational standpoint, this is significant. The new “share” function from highlighting allows for the exchange of text within a book via Mail, Message, Twitter, Facebook or Read More
Books for iPad–Apple’s Push Into Education With Study Cards If you’re still walking around thinking that the iPad mini is something to go after the Kindle or Nook, maybe this will finally cure you of that misconception. With the Study Card feature that now works in iBooks 2 and iBooks 3 for iPad and iPad Read More
Books for iPad–interactive images for iBooks Author Some call them “timelines” or “interactive images for iBooks Author.” We say “scrubbers” or “sliders.” Apple says they’re “multi-touch images” for iPad. How about we just call them cool graphics that tell a story you can’t tell in a traditional book? What am I talking about? With books Read More
Another one of the most amazing aspect of books for iPad s the capability brought about by the iBooks Author Video widget. In our opinion, it’s really hard to decide if 3D animations or videos are the most compelling interactive feature of this new form of book. Really, at this point, you don’t want to Read More
iBooks Author 3D animations set books for the iPad apart from every other kind of book that ever has been made. That’s not an exaggeration or a snazzy marketing claim. It’s fact. Books for the iPad, and the newly released iPad mini, include iBooks Author 3D animations, videos, multi-touch interactive images, puzzles, study guide notecards Read More
Dallas publisher of books for the iPad, Donald Claxton, Thursday will join DFW news radio personalities Amy Chodroff and Dave Williams on KLIF 570 a.m. to talk about the impact of Apple’s iPad Mini announcement on North Texas. Claxton, whose company is based in Dallas and recently published the most extensive interactive book for the Read More
