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Creating deep links to other iBooks

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Creating deep links to other iBooks

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- In the last movie, we learned how to create internal deep links from an HTML widget, using a link in the general format of ibooks://#link_type, and then in parentheses the content number. Let's build upon those concepts, and create custom deep links from an interactive keynote file to a free, and a paid, iBook. If you're following along, I'm on page 32 in our Nature Watch chapter. Before watching this movie, I'd suggest watching Adding a Keynote Presentation from Chapter 10, as we'll be building on those concept as well. To create a link to another ebook from a widget, we need an address to tell the link which ebook we want to access. We can use the unique asset ID of a book from the Apple iBooks Store, in the general format of ibooks://assetid/ the nine digit asset ID number. With this format, we can link our reader to any book in the iBooks store, including ePubs and iBooks. If your book was created with iBooks Author, then we can append the # sign, link type and content number…

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