Matt Gemmell on iBooks Author for authors

Matt Gemmell making one of a number of excellent points about iBooks Author and what it means for writers:

Naturally, once your text is in iBooks Author, you’re essentially writing and editing within a page-layout application, rather than a word processor or text editor. As with any publishing workflow, you will want to do the writing and editing first, and then put the book together (as much as possible). iBooks Author is resolutely not a writing environment.

Essential reading, folks. Hop to it.

19 January 2012