DesiGN for iBooks - Templates App Reviews

The templates are beautiful and useful. It is inspiring for a writer to write using these. I seem to have trouble with the placement of images when I tumble the preview from landscape to portrait, though. I am not sure if that is a problem with iBook or the template, though ...

Good selection of templates for iBooks Author, open this app, double click any of the templates to automatically open iBooks Author, save as template and boom no longer need to open this app to gain access to the templates. Obviously, you can view more for purchase from within the app. Good Job!

BUG REPORT (2 MAJOR BUGS) In ALL IBOOK PRODUCTS ie. Author & Templates you canNot edit Table of Contents, nor can you Add pages to it! The iBooks Author is promising, but you need to Test-Drive what you create before you put it out there. = The Table of Contents is Not Editable at all, and you canNot Add Pages! Other pages are good, but how can one publish a book without table of contents?!! I have to wait till these bugs are fixed before I can create anything for iBooks. PLEASE MAKE ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS’ EDITABLE & ALLOW TO ADD MORE PAGES TO IT. THANKS

Great app… Good selection of templates

Thank you kindly for this FREE offer. You may wish to do the same for iPhoto (slideshows).

Maybe Im not sure what a template is, but what I have seen with these and and with the ones that come with IBook Author, there is only one template to choose from. They have different pictures and different titles, but the layout is all the same. There is really no other option to choose from. To make any modifications is really limited.

I just downloaded this app and I can see the templates, but they will not open. What is the point?

You get nine free templates to use with iBooks Author. To use them, you have to go into the package contents for iBooks Author, then go to the Resources folder then go to the Templates folder. Just drag the templates from this app into the Templates folder for iBooks Author and you are good to go. Most websites want to charge between $8-20 for a single template, yet this app is giving nine of them away for free. It is a great deal.

i downloaded it, but nothing opens. when i click on the template it says the file is in different format or corrupted or something… so cannot open...

It needs to stop putting pics on the title before u make ur book!!!!!!!!!

I am having difficulty opening the app on my Mac Pro. It says it might be corrupted. I have uninstalled and reinstalled app but still the same error. Please help. Etson

I tried to open one of the templates with my computer, and the file wouldn’t open. My computer said all the files were ‘corrupted’ and impossible to open. Don’t waste your money.

It works for me now, thanks!

I know some people had problems (and 1 person complains that all templates for iBooks are all the same) but sometimes additional starting places (fonts, colors, heading styles) are nice to have. For each of these I was able to easily launch them into iBooks Author through this application, then save each different template as new. Now all of these show up in iBooks Author under “My Templates” (I coded the start of the names with “TiBAF” so I knew where they came from) and now I’m going to delete this app. I had no issues and it is nice to have some different things for inspiration.

You get about 20 Templates, all in Portrait mode, and they all look more like flyers. Then if you want to get the good stuff you can spend $19.99. It’s a great teaser if this was templates for Pages or Keynote, not iBook Author.

Even though its free the templates won’t open on my macbook air dont waste your time downlaoding this app

I find this free set of eBooks quite enough for my projects at school, you cant get more than this for nothing. 10/10.

Not what I wanted, anymore, Thank goodness its free, all templets are lanscape mode with no protrait mode, They listen to one complaining about all protrait and change them ALL TO LANDSCAPE . if you ok with that its alright, and free. I would buy more, but if they are all lanscape they are of no use to me. I will be removing it now! will not upgrade and will not use.

Looking at the screenshot above, you might have fallen in love with one or two or thirty lovely templates… Alas, Ive tried to open the app five times, and five times did it "quit unexpectedly." All I could do was report it to Apple, try again, and be scandalised again (my data plan is per GB, and Ive spent over half an hour on this saga already. Uninstalled, but looking forward to a fix! (Would pay for a functioning version, actually. But if *this* version "crashed," Im hesitant to try the paid one at this moment.( Anyway, thanks for having offered it free at all :)