limtc
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Q: Publishing books to China?

According to this list:

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3599

 

The whole world should be able to download free books.

 

I wish to publish a Chinese book for free in China (and also other Chinese regions), but iTunes Connect only allows me to publish to 32 stores! Is there a way to publish free books to China? And does iTunes Publisher supports Chinese books?

iBooks Author, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 10:24 PM

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  • by K T,

    K T K T Feb 3, 2012 1:24 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Feb 3, 2012 1:24 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    The publishing industry in China is tightly controlled, with help from the Govt. The way it is works for me, tho, as I've learned to work with the system.

     

    Learning to work within any system is the best way to move forward, in any case.

  • by limtc,

    limtc limtc Feb 3, 2012 2:53 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Feb 3, 2012 2:53 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    The assumption is of course valid. Where will the free content comes from then? It must come from developers/authors somewhere.

     

    Yes, I now know it simply means free content from a free-book project and some books Apple produces, and my assumption is wrong.

  • by limtc,

    limtc limtc Feb 3, 2012 2:54 PM in response to K T
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    Feb 3, 2012 2:54 PM in response to K T

    iBookstore does not allows free books to be distributed to anywhere in Asia, not just China.

  • by limtc,

    limtc limtc Feb 3, 2012 2:55 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Feb 3, 2012 2:55 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    There are. In fact, there is even a Chinese category in the iBookstore with quite a number of Chinese books.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Feb 3, 2012 3:45 PM in response to limtc
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    Feb 3, 2012 3:45 PM in response to limtc

    limtc wrote:

     

    There are. In fact, there is even a Chinese category in the iBookstore with quite a number of Chinese books.

     

    Interesting.  My iBookstore doesn't seem to have a Chinese category, but I did find one Chinese book (a Bible). So the list of non-supported languages is not correct.

  • by limtc,

    limtc limtc Feb 3, 2012 4:49 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Feb 3, 2012 4:49 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Here is the iBookstore in Singapore - which has only FREE books (but does not allow uploading FREE books to it!) and has a Chinese category (which does not allow Chinese language to be selected in iTP):

     

    Chinese 1.png

    And there are 200+ Chinese books in it, here's a selection:

     

    Chinese 2.png

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Feb 3, 2012 5:30 PM in response to limtc
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    Feb 3, 2012 5:30 PM in response to limtc

    In my US store, the books are there if you search by author, but no language categories

     

    Screen shot 2012-02-03 at 6.26.48 PM.png

  • by K T,

    K T K T Feb 3, 2012 5:41 PM in response to limtc
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    Feb 3, 2012 5:41 PM in response to limtc

    The lastest free book in the China store is E.O.Wilson's Life On Earth, Jan.19, '12 - requires iBooks 2.

     

    So, something is there recently....it might time time for it to be further populated - be patient.

  • by limtc,

    limtc limtc Feb 3, 2012 6:06 PM in response to K T
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    Feb 3, 2012 6:06 PM in response to K T

    Same as Singapore store (or all other non-paid stores). Only Apple own books (this is given out by Apple as a demo of iBooks Author).

     

    No other FREE books allowed.

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