Converted previous e-book to iBooks format, fails when submitting

The fail happens when I hit "deliver." It starts to check, but fails almost immediately. It does have M4V video files in it (the .iba file is 112MB), but they imported properly and play perfectly in the authoring environment.

Hitting "repair" under the filename generates an 'unable to repair' message.

Not sure what the error is in that cryptic message. The .iba file works great locally on my iPad.

I think, perhaps, Apple themselves aren't 100% ready to accept iBooks Author files. Even their "Book Proofer 1.1" won't check .iba files, only .epub files.

I submitted a regular .epub of my book for now. Should I figure my issue out later, can I "replace" the .epub with the new multimedia .iba version simply by "re-delivering" it via iTunes Producer?

Couple more questions:

1. Can I have a "regular" epub/iBooks book, and then have another "version" that was created in iBooks so long as they have different ISBNs?

2. If you can't re-deliver a book, how do you update it if errors are found after the initial submission? On Amazon, I just resubmit it and 10 hours later, it's updated on the store. Is the iBooks store similar, or are you done once you've submitted it?

Thanks. But that PDF doesn't say HOW to update a book.

Do you just re-deliver it via iTunes Producer?

That's not a very good policy.

Sort of like a printed book. You can't update it once it's published and printed.

Odd that Apple would adopt that old way of approaching books. The beauty of digital is it can be updated. But if Apple won't let you update your own work, then it's like a printed piece of work.

But then again, Apple will do what they want.

Or just consider selling on the Kindle from Amazon, since they let you update a book that's already published.

Got a response from Apple about my error above. Has something to do with a file not in the "manifest".

Where's this manifest? Why didn't iBooks Author create a complient package to upload?

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Package Summary:

1 package(s) were not uploaded because they had problems:

/Users/jamesorlowski/Music/iTunes Producer/Playlists/9780615595474.itmsp - Error Messages:

Apple's web service operation was not successful

Unable to authenticate the package: 9780615595474.itmsp

ERROR ITMS-9000: "Unmanifested file found : How_to_Make_Money_Shooting_Stock_Footage.ibooks:/08EDB1AEAC565AE.obsl" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)

ERROR ITMS-9000: "Unmanifested file found : How_to_Make_Money_Shooting_Stock_Footage.ibooks:/EA646B428BBC67B.obsl" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)

Your ePub contains files not listed in the manifest. All files must be listed in the manifest, or there is no way to confirm that they are intended for distribution. Unmanifested file usually indicates a missing file or it is referencing a file which is not supported by iTunes.

I basically started from scratch. I just copied-and-pasted my paragraphs into the iBooks Author from Pages. I didn't do any automatic import.

And there were videos, but they weren't in the ePub file (in Pages) since that wasn't supported on the Kindle. So, all the videos were brought into iBooks Author new.

Is there anyway to tell from the error what file(s) are "missing"? This books works 100% on my iPad when I test it.

Is there a way to test the .ibooks file outside of the iTunes Producer? I seem to only encounter this when I go to "deliver" it. Since it works on my iPad, I had no idea it would fail during the delivering process in iTunes Producer.

Apple's own "Book Proofer 1.0.1" doesn't seems to support the iBooks Author file format currently.