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"How To Write and Publish Your First iBook Using iBooks Author"

All you need to know for iBooks

As the self-publishing industry grows larger, Apple’s iBooks Author (free) exists as a unique tool for publishing e-books than can reach a large audience of iPad, iPhone and Mac users. The iBooks format is also useful for showcasing and distributing content independent of the iBooks Store.

Apple first released iBooks Author back in 2012, and it was and still is largely geared to the textbook and education community. iBooks has introduced many ways to present and display content, with an audience of over 800 million iPad users across the world. It’s been reported that since mid-September 2014, over one million customers visit the iBooks store every week, which makes for a huge potential market for authors and publishers.

The iBooks Store includes both traditional e-books, using the .EPUB format, and multimedia iBooks produced in iBooks Author. These Apple e-books can only be sold and distributed in the iTunes Bookstore, though other versions of the same book can be sold elsewhere. The primary advantage of iBooks is the use of multimedia elements (like video and interactions) to better engage with your audience. iBooks can also be used for non-publication purposes like portfolios, and are perfect for showcasing content on supported mobile devices.

Bakari Chavanu recently completed and published his own iBook, titled: Starting From Day One: Using the Day One Journaling App to Record and Enrich Your Life. This guide is primarily based on his experience and workflow for writing a book, from initial idea to publishing.

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