(2012-01-19) Mac Ibooks Author App

Apple Computer has a new free IBooks-Author app. Seems focused on making pretty IPad EBook-s, but is it EPub? Ugh, Books may only be sold through the iBookstore. We'll see.

Argh, requires MacOs X 10.7 (Lion), which I don't have. Never mind...

Update: It’s built on the EPub standard, but it’s filled with proprietary and undocumented extensions that make it completely nonstandard. Others can and probably will reverse-engineer it, but that’s a dangerous game to play.

Jan25 update: Fred Wilson reposts a piece by Noah Millman on the challenges of disrupting the Text-Book market. I Commented.