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There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive. Here is a list of some of the resources online. If you know of other good ones please add them in the comments section and we will update the list.

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Your Blog or Website as a PDF and eBook Example PDFs created using Zinepal. They look great on iPads too! Zinepal also creates eBooks in Kindle, Mobipocket and ePub formats.

"2EPUB allows you to convert PDF, doc and other types of documents & books to ePub format, the standard format for ebooks, supported by almost every reading device including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo (for Kindle use .mobi). Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt. Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi"

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" Expand your library with 3,392 stunning nonfiction and fiction books covering all subjects for PK-8. Lexile®, AR ATOS™, Fountas & Pinnell, and DRA leveled books from 24 publishers are perfect for differentiated instruction (most can be read on iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®). Assign books to students, use for independent/shared reading or assess comprehension with quizzes. Use with interactive whiteboards or computers in media centers, labs, classrooms, home, and elsewhere. No more wear and tear, lost books, limited copies, or cramped bookshelves. Organize, personalize and access virtual bookshelves anywhere-anytime; share anonymously with others. See sample books in the READ section. Engaging online writing and publishing tool inspires students to write. Use for creative writing, book responses, reports, independent/shared writing, writing workshops, or author share sessions. Books can be printed, privately published to teachers and/or published by an adult for everyone to see (note: we review each book before it appears on the site). Share published books with friends, family and others. Use our large picture library or your own images. Use our premium publisher books as Mentor Text. Create custom books for your curriculum. Watch a two-minute demo of our writing tool."

Pubish your own ebooks for kindle, iPad etc..."Sigil runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's free. It looks a lot like a word processor. Simply by copying-and-pasting text from other sources or importing HTML, you can make an e-book in the open-standards ePub format. All of the major e-readers accept this format, except for the Kindle. In which case, after you've generated your ePub from Sigil, you can use Calibre to convert it to the Kindle-friendly MOBI format."