Once my book is uploaded, how long before it appears in iTunes?

ZUOPENG wrote:

61pages, multimedia, include interactive and video.

what category is your book?

I had my first book, 72 pages tons of multimedia, and a lot of text, approved in less than 24 hours. It was photography.

Three childrens books less than 20 pages each with less multimedia are taking more than a month and still counting.

I think they must have different people reviewing different departments and some are getting lots more submissions than others

Thanks!

My own experience is that they never do first come first serve basis, it is more like LIFO (last in first out). My newer submission seems to always get approved first (some within a week), but some just stuck there for months.

Photography, you can get my sample on the iTunes to look.

thye chean wrote:

My own experience is that they never do first come first serve basis, it is more like LIFO (last in first out). My newer submission seems to always get approved first (some within a week), but some just stuck there for months.

That raises the question of whether the allocation of books to submitters is purely random, or whether there are books that are preferred over others. Are all you books on the same topic area?

Michi.

My first upload, there is much to be learned.

you may get my sample to look.

My work is primary on 2 topics - children music video books, and nature/animal books. It did seems that my shorter animal books got reviewed first, but longer nature/animal books (100+ pages) and music video books takes forever to approved.

ZUOPENG wrote:

Photography, you can get my sample on the iTunes to look.

there you go.

So thats my book and yours both on photography that were approved within 2 days. It's definitely subject specific

What is the link to your book?

To find "Basics of Photography" .

JoeScrivens wrote:

So thats my book and yours both on photography that were approved within 2 days. It's definitely subject specific

Hmmm… Two data points don't make for a statistically significant sample.

I can well imagine though that books that are short are preferred for review, as well as books that are likely to show off the capabilities of IBA and the iPad, so that might have something to do with.

Put yourself in Apple's shoes: if you have ten books with lots of pictures of 20 pages each, and a single book with 800 pages of text and a handful of diagrams and photos, which ones would you review first?

Michi.

I think, the concisenss is important.

Sorry, I neet to go to bed, it's very late!

MichiHenning wrote:

Put yourself in Apple's shoes: if you have ten books with lots of pictures of 20 pages each, and a single book with 800 pages of text and a handful of diagrams and photos, which ones would you review first?

Michi.

Under that theory why then was my 72 page book with 7000 words reviewed in under 24 hours but my childrens book that is 20 pages and less than 20 words is taking over a month to be reviewed

JoeScrivens wrote:

Under that theory why then was my 72 page book with 7000 words reviewed in under 24 hours but my childrens book that is 20 pages and less than 20 words is taking over a month to be reviewed

Touche! 🙂

OK, so that's another theory out the window 🙂

I suspect that reverse-engineering this process could be impossible, quite possibly because the process itself might be random…

Michi.

I've gotten to know several of the reviewers well as I check on status each week. My favorite is Dana who always sends me the same nice reply "Your title is still under review. We appreciate your patience as your title makes its way through this process. If no errors are identified during the review process, the title will be made available for sale in the iBookstore within 24 hours of the completion of the review."

I suspect that Dana is not a real person but I have this small hope that he/she is a real person who is simply overworked in some pink collar sweatshop outside of Hyderabad, Bangalore, or Mumbai and making a few rupees a day. At least I get a reply each time I send a query.

Someday my free book will be on the store but I'm afraid it will be so out-of-date by then that no one will download it.

I suspect it has to do with cost. My free book is now at day 47 of "pending" while my books that are not free were reviewed and available in 2 days.

Also my free book has 79 pages of mostly images using the gallery and interactive widgets so perhaps this complexity makes reviewing the book difficult.