- Firing up iBooks Author to see what it might mean for the #elangdell project. #
- First, iBooks Author (let's call it iAuthor) doesn't open existing .epub files. #
- @johnpmayer And then there's that. #
- Imported a large Word file into iAuthor. It did a good job of removing all of the formatting and inserting breaks here and there. #
- iAuthor "exports" to an .ibooks file? What's that? And it's huge. Blew a 1.2 meg word doc up to 17 megs. Why? #
- @johnpmayer iBooks Author is not another Sigil. Like comparing Word and emacs. 2 very different tools. #
- In a world hungry for WYSIWYG ebook tools, iBooks Author is an all you can eat buffet. So long as don't mind being chained to the table. #
- I see nothing in iAuthor that is going to cause me to change the #elangdell workflow. Still like Sigil for the work we do. #
- And with that I'm going to an early lunch so I can get back to real work this afternoon. #
- One more thing, the .ibooks format that iAuthor exports appears to be a slightly modified EPUB file. So you can unzip and peer inside. #
- @richmccue It's all about the Apple Stack. The exports from iAuthor can be renamed to .epub and will open in some readers but w/o features. #
- @sglassmeyer Plenty of stuff about the transitions at Harvard: http://t.co/GZhXRjWk Get it straight from the horses mouth. #
- @johnpmayer That section (b) is not a change. Apple has always reserved the right not to accept stuff in iTunes, iBooks, App Store. #
- @sglassmeyer Or like watching one of those reality TV shows. Harvard + iBooks2 has made for an interesting Twittery sort of day. #
- @kaiyen iAuthor lets you do HTML5 and JS stuff that won't work on any other platform. You can always suck out just text, but why bother? #
- @sglassmeyer Well, you could start injecting LoLcats into the stream. It might help. #
- @johnpmayer Why is the definition of a book murky? Because Apple released a new toaster? #
- Great thing about doing a large migration of stuff: keeping an eye on it leaves the other eye to follow twitter fun. And a fun day it is! #
- Nothing uglier than a macbook outta memory. At least windows gave me the three finger salute. #
- “@RWW: Why Apple Won't Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon http://t.co/aBUyi9R6” [Couldn't agree more.] #
- @elizabethf I saw that coming. TR is in the information business, not publishing. It makes sense to sell it off to one of the textbook pubs. #
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