Comments on: Hands on with iBooks Author: The desktop publisher grows up http://gigaom.com/2012/01/19/hands-on-with-ibooks-author-the-desktop-publisher-grows-up/ Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shameer Mulji http://gigaom.com/2012/01/19/hands-on-with-ibooks-author-the-desktop-publisher-grows-up/#comment-799268 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:32:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=473052#comment-799268 “As soon as you publish you create and publish your book through Apple’s “iBooks Author” you give up your rights to publish that book through any of the wide variety of popular eBook publishers.”

You “only” lose your rights to distribute the book created in the proprietary ibooks file format through other channels. You can still take the content within that file (ie: pictures, video, text, etc.), use another publishing tool to create a book in another file format, then distribute that through another store.

It’s cumbersome due to the fact you have to now manage two copies of your book but Apple does not own your content; only the output, which again is the ibooks file format.

]]> By: A http://gigaom.com/2012/01/19/hands-on-with-ibooks-author-the-desktop-publisher-grows-up/#comment-798894 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:37:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=473052#comment-798894 Don’t get too excited about all the Apple iBooks self publishing news. As soon as you publish you create and publish your book through Apple’s “iBooks Author” you give up your rights to publish that book through any of the wide variety of popular eBook publishers. I don’t work for this company but my personal suggestion would be to use Smashwords.com. If anyone has tried going through the process of getting an ebook published and up for sale on more then one site then you know that each site has a different system and different requirements that make the entire process long and frustrating for each of them. Smashwords.com helps you easily get your ebook properly formatted and submitted to a ton of the major ebook retailers including: Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store to name a few. They also sell your ebooks on their own online store and make your ebook available for sale in just about every format that exists and to top it off they do all of that for free!

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