A free app available on the Mac App Store that enables users to create multi-touch, interactive textbooks and other books that can be read on the Apple iPad. More than simply a traditional book in digital format, the books created with iBooks Author can include a variety of rich multimedia content, including interactive graphics, multi-touch diagrams and 3-D objects, movies, photo galleries, Keynote animations and more.
Books created with iBooks Author can be exported in iBooks format and shared with other friends and users that have iPads, shared on iTunes U, or submitted to the iBookstore for free download or purchase by other users.