Light and Lens Studio wrote:
Sorry I can't help you.  I will be following to see if anyone knows the answer or has suggestions.

Have you searched Apple's "Developer" material?  They may have information, software, etc. 

Looked at your port.  Extremely well done images.

... Thank you for your kind words.

I headed over to Apple Developer and couldn't find anything .. Thanks for the tip though.

Light and Lens Studio wrote:
Another idea would be to contact the developers of some apps that you like/admire and see what they would suggest.  The app store usually has contact information for most apps.

Thanks for that.

JimBobLc wrote:
Take a look at Smashwords, you can upload ebooks, not sure if they also allow ibooks, and they have people who offer to reformat your material for some minimal amount $50 or so.

Thank you James.

M Nolan wrote:
The iBooks will be almost entirely made up of imagery not text - and will reflect hard copy layouts.

hard copy?  Likely PDF format at some stage.   Create that.   Convert from there.

read the following links --
http://lifehacker.com/5509965/how-can-i … pub-format

http://www.hamstersoft.com/free-ebook-converter/#more
http://calibre-ebook.com/
http://www.red-staple.com/red-staple-an … ring-tools

http://www.libreoffice.org/


Open Source Desktop Publishing
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download



http://mashable.com/2012/01/23/ibooks-a … omparison/

"According to the contract in iBooks Author, books that writers charge for through the iBooks 2 store are subject to fees, which isn't new — iTunes does the same thing with apps in the App Store. But the contract also stipulates books created with the Author tool may only be sold in the iBooks 2 store, and nowhere else. While some writers may deem the Apple iBooks store an adequate revenue stream, others may not welcome the regulations."

Michael Bots wrote:

hard copy?  Likely PDF format at some stage.   Create that.   Convert from there.

read the following links --
http://lifehacker.com/5509965/how-can-i … pub-format

http://www.hamstersoft.com/free-ebook-converter/#more
http://calibre-ebook.com/
http://www.red-staple.com/red-staple-an … ring-tools

http://www.libreoffice.org/


Open Source Desktop Publishing
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download



http://mashable.com/2012/01/23/ibooks-a … omparison/

"According to the contract in iBooks Author, books that writers charge for through the iBooks 2 store are subject to fees, which isn't new — iTunes does the same thing with apps in the App Store. But the contract also stipulates books created with the Author tool may only be sold in the iBooks 2 store, and nowhere else. While some writers may deem the Apple iBooks store an adequate revenue stream, others may not welcome the regulations."

... Awesome ... Thanks for the information.

I've got some research to do!