![]() ![]() Stephen Hackett took the updated Pages for a spin and compared its digital book creation features to the existing iBooks Author app for Mac. In this context, we may see more app- or developer-related announcements over the next couple of weeks. With WWDC 2020 drawing ever closer, Apple is clearly trying to get any pre-announcements out of the way so the big show can focus on the future rather than the past. Hopefully this forthcoming update will also bring Pages’ book creation tools closer to feature parity with what currently exists in iBooks Author, but it’s possible that may not happen for some time. It will allow you to open and edit iBooks Author files (.iba) in Pages. If you have iBooks Author books you’d like to import into Pages, a book import feature is coming to Pages soon. Anyone who already owns the app will be able to continue using it, but Apple encourages everyone to move book creation to Pages. IBooks Author won’t receive any more updates and will become unavailable for download altogether as of July 1. Private content, on the other hand, is better suited for moving to Schoolwork. iBooks Author, similarly, has grown stagnant as many of its features have made their way into recent Pages updates.Īpple is recommending that publishers of public iTunes U content move their content over to Apple Podcasts or Apple Books, as appropriate. iTunes U has received minimal investment of late as Apple has redirected resources to its Classroom and Schoolwork platforms. While both announcements are noteworthy since they concern software with long histories, signs of these moves have been visible for years. Today through two new support pages that have been posted on Apple’s website, the company announced that iTunes U will be discontinued at the end of 2021 and iBooks Author will become unavailable much sooner: on July 1, 2020. That app will be supported until the end of 2021.IBooks Author will become unavailable soon. On a related note, Apple is also retiring iTunes U. (Plus, the fact that Apple never changed the apps name from iBooks Author to Books Author told us everything we needed to know about the app’s future.) Now that Apple has a browser-based publishing portal and a has added ebook creation features to Apple Pages, iBooks Author has mostly become redundant. If you have ?iBooks? Author books you’d like to import into Pages for further editing, we have a book import feature coming to Pages soon. You can continue to use ?iBooks? Author on macOS 10.15 and earlier, and books previously published to Apple Books will remain available. With key features such as the ability to work on iPad, collaborate with others on a shared book, draw with Apple Pencil, and more, Pages is a great platform for making books.Īs we focus our efforts on Pages, ?iBooks? Author will no longer be updated and will soon be removed from the Mac App Store. Two years ago we brought book creation into Pages. We have some news to share with you about the future of book creation. Thank you for being a member of the iBooks Author community. Apple is Discontinuing iBooks Author on 1 JulyĪpple sent out an email yesterday to iBooks Author users, informing them that the nine-year-old macOS app will be discontinued on 1 July, and removed from the App Store. ![]()
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