I've put my book on the iBookstore, and it's FREE! I had no other option, as I'm in New Zealand.
Overall, I found iBooks author easy to use and anything I wasn't sure of I googled to find the answers or used the help section, in iBooks Author.
I did some background reading on iBooks Author before I started to construct my ebook. The main thing I needed to know was what size was the maximum an eBook could be (which is 2GB). I wanted to add video snippets and at the start I wasn't sure how much MB this would use.
I found some useful links:
100 page Guide to Publishing with iBooks Author
iBooks Author Publishing your first eBook
25 iBooks Author Tutorials from DIY Journo
I think I spent about twelve hours planning my eBook. I wanted to create an eBook that teacher's could use with children that was visually rich. I added video snippets to support the concepts covered and used a variety of widgets.
I used a good quality camera to take a range of photos of the two stars of my eBook, Miss Poppy and Crazy.
I developed the analogy of using a hamburger to help children learn the structure of writing a personal recount about seven years ago. I've used this in the classroom and it provides children with a visual prompt to construct their recount, like have you written the top of the hamburger bun...the Setting?
Chapter one of my eBook deals with the personal recount structure.
Once children are confident with the recount structure I move on to talking about how to make their hamburger really delicious, so the reader wants to keep munching their way through their recount, (Chapter 2 Personal Recount: The Language).
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| Snapshot taken from a page in my iBook 'How to Write a Personal Recount.' |
