Q: mac and pc delivery??
I am a teacher and was going to use iBooks Author to create an interactive iBook for my students. Thought it would be a brilliant solution, but then I start seeing that iBooks can't be viewed on a PC, well if its free its ok, (which it will be) since its not protected, but others state that it can only be pdfs and that there will be no interactivity, etc, so not I have a dilemma in part because I am getting mixed signals.
What I want to do, is create an interactive iBook for my students. It will be free and designed to be delivered through the iTunes/iBook Store. It needs to be able to run on both macs and pcs, is that possible? Or will have I have to have pcs just get a pdf and lose the interactivity?
Is there a way to make it available just to my students or if its a free book on iTunes then everyone has access?
What do I need to know about delivery to pcs?
Thanks in advanced
Posted on Jun 15, 2015 8:10 AM
To have your book run on a pc, you will have to create it in epub format. iBooks Author can't do that. The Apple app which can is Pages, but there are various others as well. How easily you can create the specific interactivity you want in epub format I don't know.
There is no way to read the .ibooks format produced by iBA on a PC, you would have to convert to pdf.
Apple really should have created an iBooks reader app for the PC by now -- you can ask for it via
Posted on Jun 16, 2015 2:44 AM