The real value of these apps is for getting ideas that you can apply yourself, rather than finding a perfect template that requires no customization. To help novice designers out, a few developers launched template apps for iBA – some free, some costing $9.99 or more.Īre these template programs worth buying? It really all depends on your skill level as a designer, and how comfortable one feels customizing a template. Many of the early eBooks released looked very much like the early templates Apple supplied with the program itself. While iBA may be easy to work with, creating a truly stunning eBook for the iPad and Mac is still a matter of the publisher’s design skills. It took a while, but Apple finally added iPhone support with the version 2.3 update last June, though designing something interesting for the iPhone remains challenging. An error took place, corrected with the version 2.1.1 update, where the ability to embed custom fonts was temporarily lost. The only faulty update released was version 2.1 which introduced previewing new eBooks on the Mac. But then again, the program, with one exception, has always been stable – and the big problems with iBA are kind of baked in and hard to fix. For a program first released in January of 2012, it has not had many updates. Those who work with the platform like it for the same reasons many like working with other Apple apps: it is easy to learn and consistent with other Apple programs such as Pages. The Apple eBook publishing platform iBooks Author has had its critics since its first launch, but it has also its fans. But the apps can still be useful in find new design ideas, as well as showing just how much iBooks Author templates can be customized by a creative and talented designer
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