In the chapters that follow, you’ll learn how to build the components and pages of your book. You’ll see how to employ the tools and widgets introduced in Chapter 1 to create new sections and chapters, style text, lay out pages, and insert and manipulate images. Then, you’ll move on to the fun interactive stuff you can do with iBooks Author built-in widgets.

Before you get into the nitty-gritty of creating ebooks, however, you need to reconsider your notion of the “page.” In this chapter, you’ll see how, with the iBooks Author publishing platform, Apple has re-envisioned traditional page layouts and book design to come up with something new altogether, which they are calling Multi-Touch Books.