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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

How to Create iBooks


Review the ePUB formating specifications. iBooks must adhere to a set of design rules collectively know as the ePUB specifications. These specifications are propagated by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and are available for viewing at the IDPF website. Knowing these specifications will provide insight into the advanced capabilities of electronic documents such as the ability to integrate multimedia presentations with the text and text-to-speech functionality.
Write and design your document. You can use traditional publication design platforms such as Adobe's popular inDesign software, Microsoft's Publisher offering or the open-source Open Office platform.
Save your document in ePUB format. Several publishing platforms are enabled with ePUB formatting capabilities. The save-as-ePUB functionality is included with Adobe's inDesgn, Apple's Pages word processing application for iPad and the Atlantis Word Processor for the PC . There are also a number of conversion utilities available on the Internet that can convert documents into ePUB format. These utilities are useful if you design your book in a software that does not save according to ePUB format.
Apply for your International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Apple requires you to have a valid ISBN number for each book to be distributed through the iTunes store. This is the thirteen-digit number that will identify your book. One group per county is designated to award these numbers. In the United States, the R.R. Broker LLC group is the organization through which you must order your ISBN.
Apply for placement in the iTunes store. As part of the application process you must provide a tax id or social security number for tax purpose and your publication's ISBN.
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