![]() The main advantage of iBooks Author is that it can potentially create a slightly better-looking interactive multimedia ebook than what I am going to cover ahead with current KTC, Kindle Textbook Creator. The current version of iBooks Author is localized in Castilian (aka “ Spanish”), Catalán, “Chinese” (presumably Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. The current version of iBooks Author is a free creation an authoring tool which is available free for Mac OS 10.9 or later via Apple’s App Store. That’s not true in the case of true interactive multimedia ebooks, where the audio/video files are embedded in the ebook file when first downloaded via WiFi. If you surprise them by including a link to a video in a previously downloaded ebook, you might expose them to a hit on her/his data plan or produce an error. ![]() Many frugal-minded content consumers only download when connected to WiFi, for later use without using their metered data connection (if they even have one… Many iPads and other tablets are WiFi only). It may not be convenient, since it could unexpectedly become a burden on her/his data quota (if one exists).These links only work if the person reading the ebook has an Internet connection when tapping or clicking the link: Otherwise she or he will get an error saying that s/he is not connected to the Internet.These links temporarily take the person reading outside of the reading app and fire a separate app to play the audio or video.Here are three disadvantages of those links in “first-generation” ebooks: These “first-generation” ebooks have indeed had the possibility to include a link (aka hyperlink) to an audio or video file that is actually located somewhere on the Internet. This is to distinguish from “first-generation” ebooks -of which I have published several- which can include text and graphics that are directly visible on the screen, but cannot have embedded audio or video. When I say interactive multimedia ebooks, I mean electronic books that can include embedded audio and/or video. What I mean by interactive multimedia ebooks This article covers the pros and cons of these options. Although still in public beta, Amazon thankfully now offers independent authors and audio/video producers its free Kindle Textbook Creator tool (KTC), which does allow embedding audio and video. On the other hand, although many independent authors have published both print an Kindle ebooks for sale on Amazon, the company has previously been more restrictive by allowing multimedia interactive Kindle ebooks only via specific publishing companies. ![]() These interactive multimedia ebooks have existed for a few years from Apple’s iBooks via its free creator tool, iBooks Author. Whether or not you have ever been the author of print books or “first-generation” ebooks, like many audio/video content producers, you have likely been intrigued by the relatively new interactive multimedia ebooks, either to produce them for yourself or for your clients. ![]() These interactive multimedia ebooks have existed for a few years from Apple’s iBooks via its free creator tool, iBooks Author. ![]()
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