iBooks Author

I chose to write about an iTunes app called iBooks Author. The free app allows for someone with an apple computer to create and publish books into the iTunes Store. This app allows for the user to use a program similar to Keynote or Pages, in order to create any time of book, textbook or manual which can include interactive widgets as well as interactive hyperlinks.  When creating the book you are also giving an option to publish either a free book, publish for a profit or even just create a pdf version to distribute freely.

Something which we discuss frequently in class is the most effective way to communicate. Over the summer I worked at same place at which I interned the summer before, it handles both entertainment and sports events for many concierges in top NYC hotels. Every few months a book must be complied in order to send out to the hotels to show then whats going on when. This summer I found that creating and publishing an Ebook was the best way for our company to best cater to their needs in the most effective way. The book is now available on all of the hotels iPads and instantly updated on our end. Since all the iPads are also always connected to wifi, when people make a selection they can simply just use the request link that was placed at the end of the book thanks to iBooks Authors awesome widgets.

Originally created for educational purposes, I thought it was a good app to blog about because it makes sharing books, whether it be a textbook, cookbook, picture book, or manual, easy to do. With in a few simple step your a published author spreading your thoughts through out be it by pdf or the iTunes stores, in the click of a button your book becomes available for people to access in more then a dozen countries.