Ibooks Author: Publishing Your First eBook (Maria's Guides) Paperback – Illustrated, February 3, 2012

Maria Langer's book is useful but misses a number of key points. All published books start out with a cover image with imbedded title and author text. Yet there is no specific instructions on how to insert and format the cover. The IBooksAuthor program is equally negligent on this point. Next, in almost any publication, come the Copyright, Acknowledgement, Table of Contents and Preface pages of the book, yet the iBooksAuthor program illogically buries this important part of the publication under a Chapter Section heading rather than under a separate heading covering these three items. She makes no comment on this. Finally, one other limitation of the iBooksAuthor program is that is particularly irksome for traditional novelists it requires the author to enter and format each chapter of the text separately. I assume this is to allow readers to access each chapter separately via the Table of Contents using chapter hyperlinked text. Most novels do not have Tables of Content

Maria Langer hasn't updated this book in 5 years, and as a result there are a number of errors stated as fact, not the least of which is the statement that these iBooks can only be read on an iPad, which is untrue. When I contacted the author about this statement, Maria Langer's response was,"What do you expect me to do? Write you a special copy? Get real."

The book answered the questions I could not figure out by myself. Thank you for the good tips, they helped.

One of the best guides for starting in iBooks Author.

I purchased this book as an iBook and read it on my iPad while I worked through the lessons on my laptop. This book does the brilliant job of both presenting the necessary material to learn iBooks Author while simultaneously demonstrating the utility of the iBook format. You can choose to read along with clear, step-by-step directions and/or watch a brief video that walks you through the same steps. BTW: you can download all files used in the book from a link provided in the book. Nicely done.

If you need to know how to create and publish in a hurry then this is the book!You can't get away from the fact that the creative stuff is all yours, so get used to it! However between iBooks intuitive software and this general guide the creative juices should flow.