Which is weird, since there is nothing like
iBooks Author right now, and the Kindle Fire doesn't match up to the iPad.
Not exact matches
And controversy flared up around the
iBooks Author EULA, where
authors»
rights were called into question, shortly after which Apple rewrote the EULA terms.
Now that Apple has released new tools for
authors to make their own books in a proprietary Apple format exclusive for
iBooks, this is a step in the
right direction.
A cobbled - together free software tool,
iBooks Author, Mac - only, that makes
authors sign away their publishing
rights to Apple.
That's when an
author I'm a fan of released a special edition of one of her books through iTunes /
iBooks (whatever the heck Apple calls it
right now).
On the other side, we have the white tower of Apple, signing their
authors into permanent contractual servitude, telling eager potential
iBook textbook creators that if they want to use the cool Apple product they either have to give their work away for free or they have to let Apple own the
rights to their work forever.
I reported a few weeks ago that Apple was working on a new way for
authors to publish and submit content to the Apple
iBooks ecosystem and it looks like I was
right.
Right now, the best thing out there is
iBooks Author, which exports only in the iBookstore's proprietary format.
iBooks places the
author metadata on left - handed pages, and the eBook's title metadata on the
right - handed page in a fashion that is typically seen for running headers in novels.
Mark's
right on the money with his insight, but if you still want to pursue a service in spite of the cut Amazon and others will take, consider
iBooks Author or possibly PressBooks as starting points.