Mac – iBooks Author

• Give your book a great beginning with templates that include a choice of page designs with matching fonts, colors, and textures


• Easily customize your book with text and images, create new layouts, and even save a custom template


• Use the Book Navigator to organize your book and add a cover and table of contents


• Use a variety of text styles in each template to give your book a rich yet consistent look


• Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and media anywhere on the page


• Import a chapter written in Pages or Microsoft Word and apply a great-looking layout from your current template


• Add any word to the glossary with a single click and easily include photos, images, charts, tables, and shapes next to any definition


• Automatically create a portrait view of your book, which allows readers to focus on the text



• Choose from a variety of widgets that add Multi-Touch interactivity to your book


• Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, Keynote presentation, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book


• Widgets include placeholders for titles and captions and are automatically numbered so you can reference them in your main text


• Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver


• Preview your book in iBooks on an iPad to see how it looks and works


• Easily add a cover, video introduction, copyright page, dedication, and foreword


• Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download with a few simple steps*


• Export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes U or to give to others
• Create a version of your book as a PDF file