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This is a video about how Apple iBooks platform extends the ePub format. This video gives
an overview of the iBooks file format and compares it to the ePub format. It also gives
an overview of Kids Love Bugs which is an early iBook file. iTunes extends the EPub
open standard, makes it closed and adds JavaScript and a few other things. The book I'm gonna
give you an overview of is called Kids Love Bugs. It's the first self-published iBooks
2 file sold on iTunes and it's $2.99. My name is Jeremy Kemp, I'm a lecturer at San Jose
State's School of Library and Information Science. The iTunes iBooks 2 file format extends
the EPub, that's from the International Digital Publishing Forum, this format, the multitouch
book format includes template based layouts. There are six layouts I'll be showing you.
You can control the size of the columns and add multicolumn layouts. Few things about
iPad, iBooks, you have to sell them through the iTunes producer. If you create an iBook,
you can give it away for free, but if you make money from it using digital rights management,
you have to use the iTunes setup. Apple takes 30% off the top depending on the market. So
this is the set of books in my book shelf. Some of these are the professional publishers,
the life on earth, [inaudible] natural history insects. This is the book I want to take a
look at my Kids Love Bugs book. So I'm gonna open it up. I see the cover. >> Dr. Kemp's
Kids Love Bugs. >> That's called the intro media file, and then it immediately jumps
to chapter one, and you can see here there's a chapter header page. Here's a book with
multiple pages in the in the section in the chapter. So I'm gonna open up the chapter
header page and this is a, an interactive widget, the gallery widget. All the widgets
allow you to expand to full page. Here you can see a keynote animation with hot spots,
so these are linked within the slideshow. So I'm gonna start it up. So individual slides
come with a sound when I navigate through it. So I'm gonna go to the next page. This
is another widget. Click on individual pieces within the photo and it zooms in. Finally
a video file m4v file in the page. [ Music ] >> So I'm gonna shrink this page down. You
can see the layout of the book here along the bottom. Here's a different format page.
This has been Jeremy Kemp from San Jose State School of Library and Information Science.