![]() ![]() It is designed to produce rich interactive books that can be viewed on an iPad. IBooks Author (IBA) is an ebook application created by Apple, which runs on Mac OS X. This article will focus on our experiences creating, publishing, and distributing our book Prague: A Photographic Guide, which we produced with iBooks Author. In the end, we decided to use Apple’s iBooks 2 format based on the strength of the iBooks Author software. Our first step was to select a format for the ebook and there is a confusing array of choices ranging from PDF and ePub to various proprietary formats. From a content perspective, ebooks offer no page limits and can support interactive features to make the browsing experience richer.An ebook potentially offers greater distribution opportunities, higher margins, and negligible production costs compared with a physical book.Thus is a large plus in my view, but for some photographers this may be a disadvantage, as you will not have any editorial or marketing support. With self-publishing, you are in complete control of all aspects of the book’s production.I saw several advantages to self-publishing an ebook: I considered taking this route again by searching for a publisher, but decided against it because it is generally not easy getting publishers interested in new book projects and I wanted to experiment with self-publishing ebooks. I previously authored a photographic book of Los Angeles with a traditional print publisher, so I was familiar with the complexity of a book project. With several thousand pictures’ worth of raw material, my wife and I decided to co-author a coffee table-type book that showcased the city through photographs. Last fall I visited the city of Prague in the Czech Republic and spent a week photographing historical and cultural sites. ![]() Prague: A Photographic Guide was developed in iBooks Author and is available from the iTunes Store. ![]()
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