If you sign up for and get accepted into the "paid" iTunes Connect program, can you still also post books for free?
Or do you need two accounts, and if so, can they use the same Apple ID?
Mac OS X (10.6.2), iMac 27" i5
It's one account for iBooks in the store paid & free.
So when I go to post a book that's free, without an ISBN, will Apple accept it? Do I put $0 as the price?
Won't the lack of an ISBN cause the submission to fail?
A paid program assumes you'll be selling it for $$...
What do you want to do?
I do want to sell a book or two, but would like the option to give away a book or two. Does creating a "paid" account on iTunes Connect not permit you to do that?
Use Tier 0 (Free) in that case.
See the Publisher User Guide v2.0 Chapter 6, pg. 56.
Won't the lack of an ISBN cause an error?
Again 🙂 ...what do you want to do?
Paid/paid?
Paid/free?
Free/free?
I'm discussing the first two. Paid/* assumes an ISBN-13.
Sorry for the confusion.
I see that if you sign up for the "free" iTunes Connect account, you can only give away anything you put up. If you decide to later start wanting to SELL books, you can't use your free account.
I was wondering if the OPPOSITE was true. If I sign up to sell books, what if I occasionally want to put a book up for free?
Since free books don't require ISBNs, and paid books do, will the iTunes Producer allow a book to be sent via my paid account withOUT an ISBN?
Im facing the same problem. I opened a paid account. Im not able to publish a free ebook wihout the isbn. Is there something I missed ? Each isbn is 125$$
Did you get this resolved ? How ?
Thanks
I guess I'm not the only one who sees a problem here.
If you find out the answer, please post it here. I'm at a loss.
Looks like you may have to have TWO Apple IDs: one for a paid books account, and one to distribue books for free.
Your question wasn't clear in the first posting as to the problem.
My initial answer would have been YES, since I read that if you choose to later distribute books for pay you should open a PAID account.
This to me implies you can do FREE (NO ISBN required) and PAID (ISBN required).
Yes, it is DEFINITELY A PROBLEM, since I would like to do both and since I found out that I can not create a FREE account (2nd account)
I have applied and been accepted for paid account.
And actually in quotes when create account, I believe it says PAID account recommended.
So to me this means if in DOUBT create a PAID account request.
If distributing FREE and then having to submit an ISBN number this is not FREE. I would need to charge something to attempt to recover the overhead of my ISBN costs.
Need clarification on this issue.
Thanks...
i am still waiting for an answer from APPLE its being a week now 😕 I have a book almost ready and I am stuck and unable to publish as a free book ......
Free is not free if you have to pay 125.00 each time for the ISBN !!!
I opened the paid account to have both options according to APPLE....
Signed-up for Paid iBookstore Account; Still Able to Upload Free Books?
