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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
iBooks is basically "hands free" with PDF/DOC source files? Cool if so... I just had no idea.
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Hey, Diap:
I have only experimented with it (I mean, for crap's sake, I have this Mac Mini sitting here that I had to buy, just so I could test-upload iBooks, for intake issues). Last night I played with the drag-n-drop from a text file, which worked poorly only because I chose a bad title (I grabbed an old text file I had from Gutenberg, and every line was a para, duhr), but it worked fairly simply. It reminded me of either the old Adobe Pagemaker or MS Publisher. I have not yet tested the PDF drag-n-drop, but allegedly, it will handle it. (Of course, allegedly, you can export HTML from PDF in Acrobat, too, and we all know how well THAT works.) It does embed media with a snap. The resulting files, even without media, are immense. I have not yet made a book and then torn it apart to see the guts, so I can't speak to that
yet, and to be honest, as we're in High Season now, I don't know when I'll have the time...maybe over our Xmas holiday, when we close the shop.
It's supposed to support MathXL and LaTEX, for equations, which is of interest to me as we receive inquiries for math/science textbooks often. Of course, the downside is that it's limited to that platform, which means a fairly small market segment. Hard to know how clients would react to that type of ROI, but I'm always very clear with them about what to realistically expect from Apple-only distro, in terms of sales. It may be
completely different with textbooks, as well.
Hitch