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1. Beedoc Timeline 3D exports timeline widgets to iBook authors, see video below
2. Tumult Hype v1.5 officially supports export to iBooks Authors now

Video courtesy of [http://www.beedocs.com/|Beedoc]:

• What is iBook Authoring?
• How to get iBook Authoring
• System Requirements
  • For creating iBooks
  • For reading iBooks on the iPad/iPhone
• Licensing Details and Issues

• Templates
• List of available fonts on iOS for the iPad

Here is a list of available fonts on iOS 5.

• Images
• Movies
• Audio files
• 3D objects
• Keynote presentations
• HTML Widgets

Baldur Bjarnson's blog has an in depth-analysis of all the widgets provided. Note that the HTML widget can display animations and also play back video and sound files, yet with no DRM. However, since it is the built-in Safari browser, it does support additional media types like panoramic movies and mp3 streams for instance (see HTML Widgets).

ClassWidgets offers custom widget development for iBook Authors.

There will be more information about the individual file formats used by iBook Author, but for the time being, Daniel Glazman has a pretty good overview of the different files and the formats being used.

• .IBA (iBook Author project files, a GZIP archive)
• .itmsp (exported iBook file format, a ZIP archive)
• .ibooks (the iBook file format is modified ePub3, a PKZIP archive(?))

More information about the ibook format can be found at Baldur Bjarnson's blog.

• iBooks
• PDF
• Text

Internationally available:

• Life on Earth
• The Yellow Submarine
• @ASTRO_ANDRE by Rob de Ruiter (in dutch)

Available only in the US iStore (see also this page):

• Textbook publishers

Your resulting iBooks can be exported and submitted to the iTunes bookstore. You can also put them up on a website for free distribution.

So generally speaking, if you would like to make money of your book, you need to go through the iTunes bookstore.

If you prefer to distribute your iBook freely, you can put it up for download on a website.

ITunes Bookstore accounts are free, by the way.

• American citizens can obtain an ISBN number online at http://isbn.org/
• How to submit an iBook to the iTune bookstore
• How to freely distribute an iBook

• Pros and Cons of the iBook format