20th
iBooks Author first thoughts
I think iBooks Author is a great tool, but it seems that a lot of people are disappointed with the news about it, mainly because you can’t distribute the output (unless it’s free) outside the iBookstore and because it can’t output ePub format (it uses a proprietary iBook format instead). As Jason Snell points out:
Clearly the company’s first priority was to build a tool so that interactive iPad books, specifically textbooks, could be built as easily as possible. That’s what iBooks Author is for today. Any other uses are purely coincidental.
And lets not to forget that it’s a FREE tool. Even Microsoft Office Home and Student, which is not free, disallows any commercial or non-profit use.
If it doesn’t fit your needs, don’t use it, but quit complaining about it.
