Q: Can professors from Russia create book in iBooks Author?

This may be a helpful resource - iBooks Author Support http://www.apple.com/support/ibooksauthor/

-Thanks

Yes, absolutely.

Download the iBooks Author application from the Mac App Store. You'll note when you navigate to the download page that Russian is a supported language in the application.

You may want to take some tips from this thread when using different language input: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17404867

You can sign up to sell your books where there is a paid iBookstore: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3599

You can sign up to give your books away for free in those countries.

You could also export your .ibooks files to give away for free on, say, your University web server.

Daryl Hawes wrote:

 

You can sign up to give your books away for free in those countries.

 

I think there is still only a limited number of countries (36?) where you can distribute even free books via iTunes Producer, and Russia is not one of them.

"You can sign up to sell your books where there is a paid iBookstore:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3599

You can sign up to give your books away for free in those countries." Sorry for my broken sentences. That was one complete thought there, Tom. Please allow me to reword it.

You can sign up to sell and give away free books from the iBookstore where there is a paid iBookstore:http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3599

With that said it still does not change the answer for juser.

iBooks Author is available to professors in Russia. If you want to give the files that you make away to your students then export the project as a ".ibooks" file and post that to your University web server or email it to your students to give it to them.

Sorry for any confusion, Daryl.  I must have misread your post, you are correct.