It’s Okay

Apple needs to advance capabilities in this program if they indend it being a tool allowing authors easy creation and publishing of iBooks. I tried this program first starting by creating a book from templates and found very limited in grouping and organizing chapters and sections. The program doesn’t allow adding a footnote in any fashion and other items authors need when creating works. I then created something using Pages and imported it into iBook Author. I added footnotes in iPages because I was citing work. I’m working on a historical book and do need to cite sources and even sections of others work. Well, iBook Author completely destroyed my footnotes, broke down organization created in iPages using headings and even destroyed the index automatically created in Pages.

Apple developers, authors need full word processing features when writing books. Even novelists are writing themselves notes, organizing them while they write. Without the basic heading organization, footnotes, and more simplistic text editing; the program is only going to be used by someone writing a novel and more than likely they will use it only for their first attempt.

Aallord about iBooks Author, v2.4.1