Adding Linked and Unlinked Text Boxes

Reading an iBook on the iPad is nothing like any reading experience you've had before. This video takes you on a tour of a typical iBook and shows you how to find your way around it.

In this introduction, we'll discuss the basic workflow involved in making an iBook in iBooks Author.

Before you dive into iBooks Author, it's a good idea to know where everything is! This interface tour will show you what you need to know.

iBooks Author includes a number of beautiful templates that you can use to start creating your iBook. We'll take a look at some of them in this lesson.

Believe it or not, you can make an iBook in just four minutes! OK, it won't win any awards, but in this video you'll see just how easy it is to go from a blank screen to a book on your iPad.

Every book needs a cover - even digital books. In this lesson you'll learn how to make your cover and get some tips on making it stand out.

The first thing readers see when they open your book for the first time is almost as important as the cover. With an iBook, that can be a still image or even a video. You'll learn how to add that important introduction to your iBook in this lesson.

The basic structure of an iBook consists of chapters, sections, and pages. Understanding their relationship to each other and where each belongs before you get too far into your book will save you headaches down the road, and so that is what we will explore in this video.

You can write your book in iBooks Author directly or pen it in another application such as Pages then import the text. In this video you'll see how to import text into iBooks Author from another application.

You could individually apply styles and formatting to your text as you go, but if you take advantage of paragraph styles you'll find making changes down the road much, much easier. This lesson shows you how to do it.

It's an iBook, so it needs images! In this lesson you'll learn all about adding images to your iBook, including how to create slideshows, thumbnails, captions, full-screen views, and more.

You can scale and rotate any image added to your iBook, and even make some basic adjustments to it. You'll learn how in this lesson.

Sometimes text needs to flow in a straight line, and sometimes it needs to flow around an image. In this video you'll learn how to mask your photo so text will automatically flow around it exactly the way you want it to.

Want to drop a simple background out from behind a photo so you can fill that negative space with text? In this lesson you'll learn how to create an instant alpha mask in iBooks Author.

Text can wrap any number of ways around pictures, objects, or other blocks of text. This video shows you all the different ways you can flow text in your iBook.

Some objects look great floating free, while others need to be precisely aligned to look their best. This video shows you easy align objects in your iBook if you want to.

The built-in templates are great, but chances are you'll want to customize your iBook to suit your own tastes. In this lesson you'll learn how to create custom layouts that you can use over and over again.

Master objects are built into a template so you don't have to add them manually to every new page. In this video you'll see how to create and control master objects in your iBook.

When your readers rotate their iPads while reading your iBook, the format will change dramatically. This lesson explains what happens, as well as how to disable portrait orientation entirely.

This video looks at working with shapes in iBooks Author. You'll learn how to add a standard or custom shape, position and rotate it, and add colors, images, borders, or text.

If your iBook contains lots of data, you'll want to use tables and charts. In this lesson you'll learn how to express complex ideas simply with tables and charts - in 2D or 3D!

A digital book lets you not only include a single photo on a single page as in a printed book, but also embed galleries that can include as many images as you like. Galleries can have thumbnails and captions, go full-screen, and more, as you'll see in this video.

iBooks aren't limited to just still images - you can add video and audio files too! This video shows you how.

As your book grows and you reference one page or section of your book from another, then start moving elements around, you don't want to have to go back and manually update all those references. In this lesson you'll learn how to insert text that auto-updates, no matter where things move.

Textbooks are all about teaching, and what better way to reinforce your points than with a simple test? This lesson looks at the Reviews feature in iBooks, which lets you build multiple-choice and matching quizzes to make sure your readers are following along.

Have you already built a Keynote presentation to illustrate your message? There's no need to reinvent the wheel - with iBooks Author, you can simply drop an existing Keynote presentation right into your book. This lesson shows you how.

Some images are pretty just to look at, and others need to be touched. In this lesson you'll learn how to create interactive images that readers can zoom into, pan around, and tap for more info.

You can use links in your iBook to help readers navigate within your document or to direct them to outside resources. This lesson will show you how to add both internal and external links.

A good table of contents is a critical part of any good informational book, and in this video you'll learn how to create one in iBooks Author. Once it's set it up it will populate itself as your book grows and changes.

Are you using complex or advanced terms that your readers may not already be familiar with? iBooks Author includes a rich glossary feature that allows you to turn any word into a glossary entry, as you'll see in this video.

You'll create your iBook on your Mac, but you need to view it on the iPad to truly see what your audience will experience. This lesson demonstrates the process of previewing your iBook to find concepts that don't quite translate to the touchscreen.

Want to put your iBook on the web for free? No problem! This lesson shows you how to export a file that anyone can download directly to their iPad.