2. 20 JAN 2012
The publishing world is all a buzz today after
Apple’s announcement yesterday.
Apple released an update to iBooks – welcome iBooks2.
There has been much
hype around these
updates as it recognises
the move towards digital
reading and consuming
of content, with Apple
particularly targeting the
Textbook market.
3. The textbooks that are to be sold through iBooks 2 will give students
a more interactive learning experience which ultimately aims to
enable students to get better results. Apple has some key textbook
publishers on board too for this latest venture including Pearson and
McGraw Hill.
So with this new announcement from Apple we thought we’d let you
into a few tips and tricks of our own that will enable you too to get
your content; whether that
is a book, magazine or
even your company blog
into iBooks using 3D Issue.
And guess what, it really is
pretty straightforward!
4. Tutorial 1
PDF to iBooks
1) Import your PDF to 3D Issue
Launch the 3D Issue software
(Lite, Pro or Enterprise)
and click on ‘Create New’.
Select the PDF that you want to convert.
This now uploads the PDF into the software and you
are ready to make any amends to the publication.
5. 2) Make any edits required
In 3D Issue, navigate to the
DESIGN tab, and select the
‘eBook reader mode’ from the
selection box on the right of
the screen (highlighted in red
below). This takes you into the
eReader mode (opposed to
digital magazine mode which
creates digital editions for
viewing via a web browser)
Here you can make edits such as; formatting,
add/edit text or images, add table of contents and front cover.
6. 3. Publish your ‘eBook’
Once you are happy with the
way the book looks, head
over to the OUTPUT tab. On
the left hand side, check the
EBOOK option. Tip: check
the ‘epub’ to create a version
for iPad and iPhone iBooks,
but also check the ‘Kindle’
to create a publication for
download on Kindle eReaders
too. Then, click BUILD.
7. 4) Download to your iPad, and upload to your
site to allow your readers to download
Once the software has created the epub and kindle files,
you can access these from the message that appears:
Once the software has created the epub and kindle files, you can access these from the
message that appears:
Locate the ‘ebook’ folder, you will then see the
two files; epub (for iPad) and mobi (for Kindle).
Open iTunes on your computer, connect your
iPad and drag and drop the epub file from your
computer into the ‘Books’ section in iTunes. You
will now see your publication in iTunes, and
when synced with your iPad, you can see the
publication in iBooks:
8. and here is the publication on the iPad available for reading in iBooks:
9. Try it out for yourself!
Download the 3D Issue trial where you can follow these steps
to create your own book for iBooks from your own PDFs.
Or
Here is the epub we created in the above tutorial, it is the 3D Issue user
manual, you can download this epub, put into iTunes and then sync it to
your iPad or iPhone and read in iBooks.
10. Download the epub to view on your iPad in iBooks
You can of course do this to, upload the file to your site to
allow your readers to download a epub of your content to
view on their iPad through iBooks –
and remember
Ex tra because this is in iBooks, the reader does not need
T ip: to be online to view once they have downloaded.
Coming up next….
how to publish your blog or RSS feeds
to a epub and view them in iBooks!
