Re: iBooks Author

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Most authoring tools will export some sort of formatted output (RTF, MIF, 
etc.).  iAuthor gives you plain text only.  It's the equivalent of Acrobat. 
A specialized formatting tool that would be a PITA to try to repurpose 
content out of.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Snow Leopard" <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Cc: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>; <ISTC_Discussion -at- yahoogroups -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: iBooks Author


Why not? Apple's EULA for iBook Author doesn't cover the content, just the 
formatting created via its software. The content remains yours, but if you 
want to transfer it to another platform you'll have to extract it and 
re-format using QXP 9 or some other e-book creator. Either way, if you want 
to sell your content via iBooks and any other platform, you'll have to 
either re-format from some other platform for iBooks, or re-format from 
iBooks to the other platform.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other, isn't it?


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