Resources

Here's your chance to see how easy it is for students and teachers to create multi-touch books using iBooks Author. We'll demonstrate the key steps in designing a book that can be published to iTunes or shared via drives or networks.

Download my free Quick Start iBook Author at iTunes

Download Quick Start iBooks Author as pdf - below

See all my blog posts tagged iBooks Author

Here's my ScoopIt collection of how-to's for using iBooks Author

Learn more about what you can do with iBooks Author at Apple

About Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright free and public domain images, audio and video

  1. Creative Commons Image Search copyright-free content.

  2. The Commons Flickr's searchable index of public domain museum photo archives

  3. Internet Archive Search public domain videos, audio and images.

  4. Compfight: Locate the visual inspiration you need. Super fast! Compfight how to video.

  5. The Noun Project - copyright free icons for everything (note: you must cite artist)

Pro Tip: Have the image, but not the source - do a reverse Google Image Search

Widgets and other iBA tech tools

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/quick-start-ibooks-author/id823968490?mt=11
  1. Bookry offers a variety of free widgets (need to open an account) Great for embedding videos without taking up file space in your iBook.

  2. Google SketchUp Warehouse find a stock 3-D images

  3. HandBrake open source video transcoder