Publish your book to the iBookstore

publish_book.txt

Publish your book to the iBookstore

You can request that your book be made available for public download by submitting it to the iBookstore.

Before you can publish your book to the iBookstore, you need to do the following:

-Create an iBookstore seller account.

-Download iTunes Producer, the application you use to submit your book to the iBookstore. After your iBookstore seller account is created, you can sign in to iTunes Connect and download iTunes Producer.

-Have an active contract. For more information, sign in to iTunes Connect and go to Contracts, Tax, and Banking.

-Create a sample book (as described below). Customers can view the sample book for free before deciding to purchase the book. You decide how much of your book and exactly which content to include in the sample, and then you submit the sample along with the book.

-Make sure your published book is a maximum of 2 GB (the iBookstore file size limit). The publishing instructions below describe how to check the book’s file size. Other file size considerations include the following:

  -Readers with a 3G network can’t download books larger than 20 MB.

  -The larger the file size, the longer it takes for a book to download. To optimize download time, keep your book file smaller than 1 GB.