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Keynote is great, but it's still slideware. People need to think about the iPad as a printer for dynamic content. It's smart paper. Edit: Thanks to gte910h for

Keynote is great, but it's still slideware. People need to think about the iPad as a printer for dynamic content. It's smart paper. Edit: Thanks to gte910h for pointing out iBooks Author. I wasn't aware of it! http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/ http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

gte910h 15y ago
You're thinking of the iBooks app (seriously, check out the free apple iBook creator). It's very dynamic content.
- philiphodgen 15y ago
  For publications you will use locally on the iPad, maybe. If you're intending to publish via Apple, I'd say wait. After two weeks of waiting for Apple to approve a book I yanked it and am having the manuscript converted for Kindle sale as we speak. The conversion from the .ibooks file to anything usable in the real world was a giant pain. All of which was predictable and I knew that going in. But as a book-writing tool it is great. I wrote an entire book on a direct flight from Los Angeles to Dubai. Edited it on the way back. Way, way better than Word. Now I'm using Scrivener.
  - trotsky 15y ago
    Doesn't Creator's license restrict you from publishing a book authored with it on a different platform?
    - _frog 15y ago
      Yes but the output format used is proprietary superset of the ePub standard so it wouldn't be possible to view them on other platforms anyway.
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    - gte910h 15y ago
      Not the book, the output of the program. You'd need another tool anyhow because of the extensions.
WiseWeasel 15y ago
Time to bring back Hypercard? : P Web standards are probably your best bet as a smart paper API.
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