Pre-Orders without Uploading Assets?

Question

MrBlobby1970 Author

Level 1

25 points

Pre-Orders without Uploading Assets?

I received this via new announcements email fromiTunes Connect. One of the news items was this:

Pre-Orders

Pre-orders are an easy way to generate sales before publication. Now, you can make your book available for pre-order without submitting a cover or book asset up until two weeks prior to publication date. Your pre-order will appear live in the iBookstore as soon as you deliver complete metadata. You must submit the cover, book asset, and custom preview two weeks prior to publication.

For more information, see the iTunes Producer User Guide.

How does one do this? I went in, and it won't let me upload metadata without attaching the publication and publication preview. Or am I missing something? It would be great to start a pre-order page for a book without having to have the book already completed.

iBooks Author-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 16, 2012 6:44 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Ayar Manqu

Level 1

14 points

Mar 18, 2012 11:53 PM in response to MrBlobby1970

It *seems* that Apple no longer offer this.

Supposedly, version 2.5.1 allowed this feature, but I was also not able to get it to work and there was no "2.5.1 Guide" with instructions.

I wrote iBookstore support, and got no reply until a couple of days ago and they said:

"Please refer to Appendix A in the iTunes Producer guide to find more information on delivering a book for pre-orders. According to the current iTunes Producer Guide all assets (EPUB, iBooks format, cover art, and screenshot files) are due up front."

Then I noticed that there is a new version 2.6 with a 2.6 Guide and it mentions that you need all assets to create a pre-order.

So it seems the feature is gone for the moment 😟

Reply