Open an iBooks Author file in Pages

Here's what the iBooks Author EPUB templates can do: Export to EPUB 3 format. Allow the reader to read in both paginated and scrolling view. Allow the reader to change the font size in the book. Can include some interactive widgets, such as movies, audio clips, HTML, and image galleries. Can be viewed in any EPUB reader that supports EPUB 3. Apple Books for Authors guides you through every step of your journey as an author, from structuring your story to packaging your digital book and selling it on our store. Even established authors will find valuable resources on how to grow sales and track performance.

To create an iBook, start by downloading the iBooks Author app, then open it and select a template. Next, upload a cover image and type in the book title and author's name. Then, click on 'Chapter 1' and start filling your book with content by typing text directly in the fields pre-selected by the template. Apple makes it easy to utilize tools like iBooks Author for help in every step of the writing and publishing process. The downside to this is that you need a Mac computer for this app. Pages, the word processing tool available through Apple, now offers the option to publish directly from Pages to Apple Books, thus making the publication process. Apple welcomes your feedback on iBooks Author — the free Mac app that lets anyone create beautiful Multi-Touch books for iPad.

You have several options for opening your iBooks Author file, which has the .iba filename extension:

• In Pages, choose File > Open, select the iBooks Author file, then click Open.
• Select the iBooks Author file in the Finder, then choose File > Open With > Pages.
• Drag the iBooks Author file onto the Pages app icon.

When importing your iBooks Author file, Pages might prompt you to save some content to a separate folder:

• If the cover of your book has a different orientation than the body of the book, you're prompted to save the cover as a separate file. You can add the cover back to the book when you export the book from Pages.
• If your book includes certain widgets, you're prompted to save the widget content to the separate folder. You can then reuse the content in your Pages document.

If you clicked Cancel when prompted to save the cover and widget content or you can't find the folder, you can always reimport the iBooks Author file to create the folder with the relevant content.

Edit your book in Pages

You can edit your book in Pages before you export to EPUB or publish to Apple Books. Carbon copy cloner big sur. When you view your book in Pages, you may notice some differences. Here are some ways it might look different:

• The table of contents is text-based, and can be viewed and edited in the sidebar.
• Glossaries appear at the end of your book, and glossary terms link to the glossary.
• Images, video, and audio files are imported, but some settings from iBooks Author such as “Plays full-screen” or “Plays automatically” are not available.

Use a book cover

If the cover has a different orientation than the rest of the book, Pages saves the cover as a separate Pages (.pages) file called Cover. To use the cover when you export to EPUB or publish your book, convert it to a PDF, then add it as the cover by selecting “Choose an image.”

If Pages inserted the cover as the first page of your document, choose “Use the first page as the book cover image” when exporting to EPUB.

Use widget content

The image gallery and media widgets appear in your book in Pages like they appear in iBooks Author. Other widgets won't appear the same way, and are covered in this section.

Pop-over, scrolling sidebar, interactive image, and review widgets

Pages saves pop-over, scrolling sidebar, interactive image, and review widget content as separate Pages files. The file is named so it's easy to find. If your book used a fixed layout in iBooks Author, the file includes the page number where the widget appears, such as Page3_Popover. For books based on EPUB templates, files are numbered, such as ScrollingSidebar_5.

Each Pages file incudes all the original contents of the widget. You can copy and paste some types of content from the reference files into the book in Pages. For instance, you can copy the contents of a scrolling sidebar widget into a text box, then adjust the size of the text or the text box to accommodate all of the content.

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HTML widgets

Pages creates a folder for each HTML widget that includes a mix of files with the widget’s content. You can access your media files to copy into your book, or you can open the HTML file in a web browser and take a screenshot or create a movie using QuickTime.

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3D widgets

Pages creates a folder that includes Collada (.dae) files for all 3D widgets used in the book, along with any texture files. You can open these files in a compatible 3D-modeling application, or you can open the file in Preview and take a screenshot or create a movie using QuickTime.

Keynote widgets

To add a Keynote presentation to your book in Pages, open the original presentation in Keynote, export it as a movie, and then add the movie to your book.

To make it easier to locate the Keynote file, you can find the name of the original Keynote file in iBooks Author. Open your book in iBooks Author, select the Keynote widget in the book, then open the Widget inspector.

Book creation is moving to Pages, and iBooks Author is no longer available to new users. iBooks Author can still be used on macOS 10.15 and earlier, but there will be no new updates.

iBooks Author is a free app available in the App Store on your Mac that you can use to create and publish ebooks. Using the tools in the app, you can add artwork and metadata to a book. You can also export EPUB files that you created in a different program to iBooks Author, and then sell them on Apple Books or distribute them for free.

To publish your book from iBooks Author, you must first export it as a PDF, text file, EPUB, or .ibooks file. To choose the best format for your book, first decide how you plan to distribute it.

Publish your book on the Book Store

You can create a book in iBooks Author in EPUB (.epub) or iBooks (.ibooks) format and publish your work to the Book Store in Apple Books.

To sign up to sell your books on the Book Store, set up iTunes Connect for Apple Books. You can publish to Apple Books with Pages, iTunes Producer, or our web publishing portal. Learn more about Apple Books for Authors. You can also make books available for free on the Book Store.

Publish your book for an iTunes U course

iTunes U is discontinuing at the end of 2021. Learn more about this change and what it means for content publishers and subscribers.

To submit your work for publication on iTunes U, save it as an .ibooks or EPUB file.

To publish your book on iTunes U, you must have an iTunes U site. If you don't have an iTunes U site, you can apply for one.

Learn more about iTunes U and how to manage your classroom or course.

Distribute your books on the web

You can distribute works that you create with iBooks Author on the web as a standalone purchase or subscription product or service. When you sell your book on the web, you must use a format other than .ibooks, such as PDF or EPUB. If you want to sell your work in .ibooks format, you can sell it only through the Book Store in Apple Books. When you provide a work for free, you can distribute it in any format (including .ibooks) through the Book Store or by other means.

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You retain all of your rights in the content of the work that you create in iBooks Author. If you distribute your work in .ibooks format, it's subject to the distribution restrictions described above.