Created in iBooks Author and specifically designed for Apple devices, Multi-Touch books (.ibooks) provide numerous possibilities to interact with the reader through photo galleries, videos, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, quizzes, and more. Multi-Touch books are designed to create immersive and memorable experiences with textbooks, cookbooks.

About iBooks Author

• Apple Books is the single destination for all the books you love, and the ones you’re about to. Browse the Book Store, join Oprah’s new Book Club, keep track of what you’ve read and want to read, and listen to enthralling audiobooks.
• Wednesday June 10, 2020 10:38 am PDT by Juli Clover. Apple today sent out an email to iBooks Author users, letting them know that the Mac app is being discontinued on July 1 and removed from the.
• Sep 26, 2018 Apple iBooks Author 2.6.1 - Create and publish iBooks for iPad. Download the latest versions of the best Mac apps at safe and trusted MacUpdate. Sep 26, 2018 Apple iBooks Author helps you create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad.
• Multi-Touch Books. Multi-Touch books are created using the iBooks Author application, which generates books using the Apple-developed Apple Books Format (.ibooks).Multi-Touch books can contain a wide variety of interactive elements, which makes them particularly well-suited for textbooks, cookbooks, history books, and picture books.

iBooks Author will no longer be updated, and it is no longer available to new users. If you’ve previously downloaded the app, you can still access it from your App Store purchase history. You can continue to use iBooks Author on macOS 10.15 and earlier, and books previously published to Apple Books from iBooks Author will remain available. You can also open and edit iBooks Author files (.iba) in Pages.

About book creation in Pages

You can create books from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com.

Create and share books

You can create, collaborate on, and publish books.

• Import an iBooks Author book into Pages on your Mac for further editing.
• Create a book by selecting a template, adding pages, and viewing and sending an EPUB.
• Collaborate with others on a shared book.
• Publish to Apple Books to offer your books for download or purchase.

Design books

You can use many features in Pages to help you design your book.

• Use drop caps to make a paragraph stand out with a large, decorative first letter.
• Fill text with gradients or images for added style.
• Apply a color, gradient, or image to the background of any page.
• Add linked text boxes to allow your text to flow from one text box to another automatically.
• Create and use master pages to keep your design consistent across your book.
• Use facing pages to create two-page spreads.
• Add vertical text for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Add media to books

You can add video, image galleries, drawings, audio, and more to your book.

• Add images and include video in your book.
• Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in your books.*
• Insert an image gallery to view and move through a collection of photos on the same page.
• Add drawings to your book with Apple Pencil or your finger and animate them.
• Include captions and titles for images, videos, shapes, and other objects.
• Record and play audio directly on a page.
• Add accessibility descriptions to media to help people using assistive technology.
• Choose from over 700 editable shapes to add to your book.
• Use LaTeX or MathML notation to add an equation.
• Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes, so they move with the text.

* This feature might not be available in all countries or regions.

Organize books

You can give your book structure and form.

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• Navigate your book with an automatically generated table of contents.
• Duplicate, move, or copy and paste pages or sections of your book.
• Add links to webpages or other pages in your book.
• Create and save your template to use again as a model for new books.

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I've never used it, but have you updated or upgraded larely or what???

Apple Ibooks Author 2.6.1 Full

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...

Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.

Dec 7, 2019 4:11 PM