MrBones

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

Uploaded the book several days ago and haven't seen it yet.

Posted on Feb 14, 2012 7:46 AM

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

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  • by LightninbugPub,

    LightninbugPub LightninbugPub Jun 9, 2013 4:48 PM in response to Gregg Mojica
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    Jun 9, 2013 4:48 PM in response to Gregg Mojica

    Thanks, Gregg.  I did read the thread and was happy to see that such are not taking as long as they were.  I didn't read it, though, until my expectations were frustrated for several days.  My post was as much to add to the collective wisdom as to whine about the delay. I'll update the thread when my submission completes the process.

  • by Gregg Mojica,

    Gregg Mojica Gregg Mojica Jun 9, 2013 5:01 PM in response to LightninbugPub
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    Jun 9, 2013 5:01 PM in response to LightninbugPub

    I understand your frustration--you just want to see your book on the store !   

  • by Gregg Mojica,

    Gregg Mojica Gregg Mojica Jun 10, 2013 7:30 AM in response to Gregg Mojica
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    Jun 10, 2013 7:30 AM in response to Gregg Mojica

    Everyone:

    Stay tuned to WWDC today...after looking over the schedule for the labs, there's one called "What's New in iBooks Author."  Possibly an iBooks Author update?

  • by LightninbugPub,

    LightninbugPub LightninbugPub Jun 10, 2013 2:02 PM in response to Gregg Mojica
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    Jun 10, 2013 2:02 PM in response to Gregg Mojica

    Good news.  The little light turned from red to green sometime this afternoon, making the wait time for the quality assurance review a few hours more than one week for an .epub book.  That was my experience, at least, with a first delivery.  I assume that it will shortly be visible on the iBookstore.

     

    I hope that helps the collective and those others who, like me, wondered how long the process would take.

  • by Gregg Mojica,

    Gregg Mojica Gregg Mojica Jun 10, 2013 6:55 PM in response to LightninbugPub
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    Jun 10, 2013 6:55 PM in response to LightninbugPub

    Great to hear!  Please give us the link to your book, I'd be happy to give a 5-star rating!

  • by Tidy,

    Tidy Tidy Jun 12, 2013 1:45 PM in response to rdadarwala
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    Jun 12, 2013 1:45 PM in response to rdadarwala

    Mine has the red button and says not on in 52 stores. Still waiting after 3 days. It would be good to have assessment of glitches/revisions automated so the fix can happen immediately.

  • by Bernd Lutz,

    Bernd Lutz Bernd Lutz Jun 18, 2013 12:57 PM in response to MrBones
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    Jun 18, 2013 12:57 PM in response to MrBones

    I've uploaded my book yesterday and it took about 12 hours for the light to turn green. Over 300 pages, but mostly photographs. Not too much text to read, but text in 3 languages.

     

    https://itunes.apple.com/de/book/carnaval-de-barranquilla/id662887370?mt=11

     

    Carnaval de Barranquilla

  • by Gregg Mojica,

    Gregg Mojica Gregg Mojica Jun 18, 2013 7:15 PM in response to Bernd Lutz
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    Jun 18, 2013 7:15 PM in response to Bernd Lutz

    Awesome!

  • by millthorpe,

    millthorpe millthorpe Jun 20, 2013 9:55 AM in response to Gregg Mojica
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    Jun 20, 2013 9:55 AM in response to Gregg Mojica

    Does anyone have any experience of having a book reclassified from 'book' to 'textbook'? I delivered as a 'textbook' in iTunes Producer and was on the US store within 24 hours but in the books section rather than textbook. My book is aimed at grade 8, has custom built interactives and videos, even follows the 'Common Core Standards' for K8. Contacted iBookstore support but didn't get anywhere. Any help much appreciated.

  • by Gregg Mojica,

    Gregg Mojica Gregg Mojica Jun 21, 2013 2:27 PM in response to millthorpe
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    Jun 21, 2013 2:27 PM in response to millthorpe

    It's an iBooks Author book, right?  It took me literallly 5 months to get my textbook in the textbook section (instead of the general books section).  Email apple and request atht they put in its appropriate category: ibookstore@apple.com.

  • by millthorpe,

    millthorpe millthorpe Jun 23, 2013 3:08 AM in response to Gregg Mojica
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    Jun 23, 2013 3:08 AM in response to Gregg Mojica

    Many thanks for your kindness in replying Gregg. The book is indeed an iBooks Author book. In addition, I have 20 years of teaching experience, I have authored books for one of the big companies, the book is aimed at grade 8 with instructional material and the book has many review questions. I did try mailing ibookstore but just got a quick reply that they 'reserve the right to alter classifications of books to help customers find what they are looking for'. Did you have to contact them a few times Gregg or what was it that worked?

  • by professorpatrick,

    professorpatrick professorpatrick Jun 23, 2013 3:29 AM in response to MrBones
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    Jun 23, 2013 3:29 AM in response to MrBones

    Millthorpe,

     

    I have published 4 books on the iBookstore.  In my view the time is extremely variable - the longest  took about four weeks and the shortest less than one day.  It's always the same you cannot wait and then one day you check and there it is.  As you are publishing an educational text you may be interested in this free book of mine.

     

    Here are the details:

     

    Name: The iSyllabus: An Apple Based Educational System.

    Link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/isyllabus-apple-based-educational/id638327061?m t=11

     

    I hope this helps.

     

    Patrick Mc Namee

  • by misty_sf,

    misty_sf misty_sf Aug 6, 2013 10:41 AM in response to professorpatrick
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    Aug 6, 2013 10:41 AM in response to professorpatrick

    Hi.  This is my first post here.  I just uploaded my first book to the iBookstore yesterday.  It was in the iBookstore when I logged in this morning.  (Yay!)  However, it is not showing up in any searches.  Do I just need to wait and it will show up eventually, OR is there something I need to do so that it's findable through search?

     

    I did look through a few pages of responses here (though I confess I did not go through all 35 pages), but could not find any responses related to search results.

     

    Thank you for any help.

  • by Tidy,

    Tidy Tidy Aug 7, 2013 11:45 AM in response to misty_sf
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    Aug 7, 2013 11:45 AM in response to misty_sf

    Misty, I now have 3 books in the store and have found that yes you generally just have to be patient. First book took 3 weeks and a phone call but subsequent books took only around a week to show up. Then it also took a while for them to be more easily discovered in the store - still working out the tricks to that such as good titles etc... Some of mine show where I want them to and some are slightly lost in space. Have wondered to myself if the paid books get priority over the free ones. Also those more downloaded or commented on?

     

    Lastly it took about 1 month for full stats to show up in iTunes Connect - must need a month of data for this to become fully active.

  • by Edgar,

    Edgar Edgar Aug 9, 2013 9:35 PM in response to Tidy
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    Aug 9, 2013 9:35 PM in response to Tidy

    It really seems that there is an inconsitency in wait time. Fogetting about the 2-3 month wait for iBooks when it startet last year, my last book in May took only 24 hours to be approved, to my surprise.

     

    Now I published my new iBook on Wednesday morning and we are heading into the weekend but still red.

     

    Can someone explain to me why it is "rocket science", so Apple is unable to send an email to notify if a submission was approved or got a ticket. Just think about the cumulative loss of productivity of all the authors checking in every day (most likely multiple times) or missing a ticket if you didn't check in. Makes no sense to me.

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