You can add text labels where readers can zoom in for a closer look and more information. IBooks Author provides photo editing and a nice option for interactive images. While the templates option is a good touch on iBooks Author’s part, that the fixed and reflowable layouts are only available with one ebook format is unnecessarily limiting. IBooks Author, on the other hand, offers you a myriad of templates as a portrait or landscape fixed layout (for iBooks store only), or reflowable layout (EPUB only). The cool thing about Kotobee Author is that even after you’ve chosen which layout you’d like for your ebook, with every new chapter you get to choose which layout you want for that chapter, giving you ultimate flexibility. Both can be exported as an EPUB or mobile, desktop or web app. Kotobee Author offers you two options: reflowable and fixed layout. When you start a new ebook in either platform, you’re faced with a layout decision. We’ll go through six of the most important features: layout options, media, questions/reviews, scripting, emulations, and export formats. They are all obligatory however with Apple iBooks. With Kotobee’s ebook apps, you (as the author) can enable or disable the reading tools you wish. In both cases, the user reading the ebook will gain advantage of the following reading tools: Instead, its exported ebooks open on Apple Books (formerly iBooks). IBooks Author on the other hand does not export ebook apps. web app, mobile app, desktop app) exported from Kotobee Author will run independently without requiring a third-party tool, since they already contain Kotobee Reader bundled inside seamlessly. Interactive ebooks exported from iBooks Author and Kotobee Author can be opened on various readers, depending on the format. * It’s worth noting that by gaining access to any chapter’s underlying HTML, CSS, and Javascript, along with some average web development skills, any kind of interactive content or behavior can be developed. However subtle the differences, the resulting ebooks are be quite different in terms of capabilities. The features that both software bring to the author in terms of ebook content are for the most part similar. ** Kotobee Author requires a paid license for the use of particular features, and some export formats. * For more details on how fees and taxes are calculated, scroll mid-way down Apple’s Banking and Tax info sheet. Multiple types (depends on export format)īranding and lifting limitations require a paid license.** So buckle up, grab a cup of coffee and settle down. Finally, they were tasked with creating the same ebook on both software, using their own same MacBooks so that any differences in the experience will be due to the software, not the machine. We let them independently find their way around both software from watching tutorials videos to scouring knowledge bases until they knew their way well around both. In order to give you a complete fair sense of the two and the experiences, we’ve tested the learning curves of both software with new users in our company. We will list the points that each excel at, as well as provide you with comparison tables for specifications and features. Though we all love Kotobee, we also love being unbiased with facts. Our goal is to help you find the best solution for your ebook. In this article, we’re comparing two high ranking interactive ebook authoring software: Kotobee Author and iBooks Author (please note that iBooks Author has been discontinued back in July, 2020).
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