can you change the background color after placing your text

Easily done. You can do it page by page or add a color background in the master layouts.

How? Go to the help menu and type in Create or modify a layout. - Fabe

One other color or different as you go?

See iBA Help for how to manipulate layouts and...

Publishing With iBooks Author

No worries JO. It is VERY easy to do, and fun too!

Here is a bunch of background graphics for free:

http://www.box.com/s/h8x5i6l0fbledes9dm7z

- Fabe

I couldn't resist ...

- Fabe

Jo,

I do not want to throw a monkey wrench into your stew pot, but I think you would reach a wider audience by creating your cookbook in another epub program and uploading it to different retailers (by that I mean Amazon and Barnes & Noble). iBooks Author limits your distribution options.

Of couse, if you are going to export your work as a PDF, then that's a different story.

All the best. Ciao! - Giovanni

P.S. My Tomato Soup recipe is the first in my "Single Poor Man's Cook (or not) Book" I just came up with it today.

I need a little help:

Each recipe that I type, it is making a second page blank, how would I stop this from happening?

Second: Now that I have typed my Recipe Book in ibooks Author, can I allso save all of my work for another way to sell my book,

the colored pages are working out beautfiully.

Without looking over your shoulder, I assume you are using a template page that does just as you say, moves a blank page forward. However, it sounds like you are done inputting recipes, so if blank pages exist, just right-click on the pages in the sidebar and delete them. If I'm not getting what you are saying, let me know.

You can export your work as Text (File menu >> Export ...) This will make it all generic, but keep your text for future use. There is a second point here you must contemplate, creating a book in iBooks Author and uploading it to the Apple iBookstore, make it exclusively for sale through that channel only. Do you want to sell on Amazon?

Publish a screen shot from one of your beautiful pages. We'd all like to see.

- Fabe

First of all thanks a milion for your help...

I would also like to sell it on Amazon,

from what I understand, it is possible for me to sell on iBookstore and other's, since they do not own my text! Is this correct or am I mistaken?

Did you want me to put th recipe on this site? Would love to show you one of the recpe's...

I had to re-type the entire book in ibooks author

1. You are welcome a million and one.

2. Click the OVERVIEW tab on the main page here and Read the Publishing & Distribution FAQs listed, especially #2.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5071

3. Yes! show a recipie. You can take a quick picture of a page by using Shift-Command-4. Make a reply and click on the camera icon to attach the new pic.

4. I dread typing anything, let alone doing it twice. Currently I am hiring transcriptionists in my village to type a complete book for me.

Ciao

>I would also like to sell it on Amazon, from what I understand, it is possible for me to sell on iBookstore and other's, since they do not own my text! Is this correct or am I mistaken?

Your content is under your control, so yes you can sell it via multiple channels, such as Amazon.

You may know this already, so sorry to repeat in that case, but if you use iBA to author, the only 'store' is iTunes, as that is the only 'outlet' that supports .ibooks format.

In other examples, you can use your content in Pages, perhaps tweaked in calibre and then distribute that e-pub output across iTunes, Amazon, etc.

Good luck in all cases 🙂