DesiGN for iBooks - Templates
DesiGN for iBooks - Templates is a template library for Apple's iBooks Author, the now-discontinued tool for creating and publishing interactive digital books for the Apple Books platform. The app provides pre-designed page layouts, design elements, and formatting templates to accelerate book creation. It targets self-publishing authors and small publishers who want to quickly assemble professional-looking iBooks without building layouts from scratch.
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1 suggestionDesiGN for iBooks - Templates is built as a companion to iBooks Author, which Apple discontinued in 2014 and no longer maintains. The template app itself has not received updates in many years and there is no evidence of a native Apple Silicon build. Because iBooks Author itself has not been actively developed or ported to Apple Silicon, and the Mac App Store has largely shifted publishing workflows towards Apple Books for iPad (a web-based authoring platform) and the Apple Books app itself, this template library is no longer part of Apple's active ecosystem. The app will continue to run under Rosetta 2 for the next two years, but will stop launching entirely when Apple removes Rosetta in macOS 28 (September 2028). If you are still using iBooks Author for active publishing work, you should plan to migrate your projects to an alternative before that deadline. Modern alternatives include Adobe InDesign (professional-grade, paid, supports export to various ebook formats), Vellum (focused on ebook design, paid, native Apple Silicon), or Affinity Publisher (design-focused, one-time purchase, native Apple Silicon). For simple ebook creation, the web-based Apple Books for Authors platform at books.apple.com now handles basic publishing without requiring desktop software.
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