Apple's much-hyped iBooks Author came out a while back, and Cupertino hopes the free app can become the iTunes for the self-publishing textbook world. Available solely through the Mac App Store at a ...

TUAW's Erica Sadun and I are ebook publishers. Late last year, we started up an ebook publishing company -- Sand Dune Books-- and were fortunate to hit a publishing home run right off the bat with our ...

At its education media event in New York, Apple’s Phil Schiller just announced iBooks Author, a new Mac app for authoring books. From an intuitive interface that takes advantage of the desktop’s real ...

Apple has released its new iBooks Author in the Mac App Store for free, enabling users to create dynamic, multimedia ebooks targeted for iPad deployment. The new iBooks Author is billed as a tool to ...

Today, during their education press event, Apple announced the availability of the iBooks Author App that allows users to create interactive iBooks on their Mac. Now anyone can create stunning iBooks ...

iBooks Author is an intriguing app and a a big deal for publishers. But while the app is obviously very new, some aspects of the software give me pause. Here are my questions for Apple about the ...

When Apple released iBooks Author as part of its education event in January, one element of the End User License Agreement raised some eyebrows: namely, it specified that works created with the tool ...

Apple rolled out a self-publishing tool yesterday for indie authors and companies to publish their own books and list them in the iBooks store. There are been some confusion and questions regarding ...

What is Apple’s iBooks platform? The most obvious way to answer that question is to say that it’s the company’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle. And it is–they both offer online stores for buying ...

Apple attempted to head off a minor controversy surrounding iBooks Author by clarifying that it does not claim ownership of the content authors write, restricting only sales of its .ibooks format.

Heh, which one? My first Apple was a IIgs that my mom got us when I was a kid. My first real Mac was a used SE I bought in high school. The first computer in my unbroken chain of Photoshopping Macs ...