My first book published on Apple’s iBooks!
I’ll be posting how I created the ePub version of The Reelsmith’s Primer in a future post but it’s done and now published on iBooks! I used this experience to really dig in and understand the electronic publishing process from start to finish. I began with my original manuscript (in Apple’s Pages format) and converted it to ePub with Sigil. I applied for and became approved as an iBooks publisher and then helped my publisher set up his account on iTunesConnect also. Finally, I uploaded the book and entered all of the required information (pricing in various countries, description, etc). 10 days later (that’s today!) the book appeared on iBooks!
This electronic version is enhanced with full color, high resolution photographs and drawings. Rather than just convert the original book’s black and white images, I wanted to add a little extra and really take advantage of the iPad’s beautiful color screen (can’t get that on a Kindle!). I think it turned out great. Here is a screen shot of my iPad and iBooks:
Here is a screenshot of one of the pages with a color photo:
