{"id":1962,"date":"2012-01-20T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:04:29","slug":"ibooks-author-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2012\/01\/20\/ibooks-author-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple just made it redonkulously easy to put your alumni magazine on the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3188\" alt=\"overview_buckets_publishers\" src=\"https:\/\/dfwn148cvdexl.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/overview_buckets_publishers-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Apple just made it redonkulously easy to put your alumni magazine on the iPad &#8211; and best of all, they did it for free.<\/p>\n<p>First, let me back up a second.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of calls and emails lately from vendors wanting to make me an app version of my University&#8217;s alumni magazine. The magazine apps I&#8217;ve seen have been mostly flip-book PDF style apps and they&#8217;re expensive to create and maintain.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 300px; padding: 5px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0836409843308249\";\n\/* 300x250, created 10\/8\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3041775900\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]&gt;<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]&gt;<\/script><\/div>\n<p>While driving home in the snow last night, I had a realization. Yesterday, Apple released new software called <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ibooks-author\/id490152466?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">iBooks Author<\/a>, free software that will allow people to create multimedia rich books that can be read in the free iBooks app on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The light went off. While Apple is aiming this at textbook authors and publishers, there&#8217;s no reason we can&#8217;t easily create rich multimedia versions of our college magazines using it.<\/p>\n<p>So, last night, I did it. I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ibooks-author\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">iBooks Author<\/a> and in 15 minutes had a story laid out including photos, an interactive slide show and dynamic image with hot spots and text.<\/p>\n<p>The application is super simple to use, easier than Word, and creating the dynamic elements is very easy. Here&#8217;s the interface, I had a few extra guides turned on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dfwn148cvdexl.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-19-at-11.11.38-PM1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3189\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2012-01-19-at-11.11.38-PM\" src=\"https:\/\/dfwn148cvdexl.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-19-at-11.11.38-PM1-300x196.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you work, you can preview your work on an actual iPad, if you have one. You connect it, and a proof shows up in your iBooks 2 app. You can then scroll through the pages in the real app, interact with the elements, highlight, take notes and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"2012\/01\/photo.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1969\" title=\"photo\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.highedwebtech.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/photo-300x225.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This just changed the game. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made an iBook in half an hour. Imagine if I spent an hour on it.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not charging for my magazine iBook, and I imagine many institutions wouldn&#8217;t, you can distribute the file on your website. If you want to sell it, you&#8217;ve got to go through Apple (and they&#8217;ll take their 30% cut, thank you very much.)<\/p>\n<p>iBooks Author requires a Mac running OS 10.7.<\/p>\n<p>While meant for K-12 and textbooks, I think they&#8217;ve given us higher ed folks a nice present as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple just made it redonkulously easy to put your alumni magazine on the iPad &#8211; and best of all, they did it for free. First, let me back up a second. I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of calls and emails lately from vendors wanting to make me an app version of my University&#8217;s alumni magazine. 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