Fiction Book-OTHER, Windows 7
Uploading a book to the store requires using iTunes Producer, which runs on OS X only, sorry.
You could use an Aggregator to do it for you.
I thought OS X was only needed to CREATE the ePub file. I already have that, and thought there was a way to directly upload it. Having to buy a new computer just to upload seems a bit much, and it's not something I'm likely to do any time soon. Certainly not if that's the official practice.
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So, the ePub files I've already created STILL have to go through an aggregator (and give THEM a share of the pie, too)? Perhaps I'll just keep on without the bookstore.
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rlherron wrote:
So, the ePub files I've already created STILL have to go through an aggregator
Yes, that is how it works if you don't have access to a Mac to run the special app required for direct uploading to the ibookstore.
If your books are already in other stores like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or Googlebooks, you may wish to pass on the iBookstore, since items bought in the latter can only be read on an iOS device and not on anything else, even a Mac laptop or desktop.
Or if you want to ask Apple for a Windows version of the iTunes Producer app, send them feedback
If you're talking about the hybrid-epub file (.ibooks) that iBooks Author outputs, yes, using iBooks Author is OS X/Mac only.
You have .epub files already. You don't need iBooks Author (.ibooks), unless you want to use some of the special features it allows such as widgets, in which case you'd need to move your existing content over and rework as needed. Note there is no direct import mechanism from .epub to iBooks Author.
Standard/compatible epubs, regardless of the tools (Mac/Windows), can be uploaded to the store....this is how books got into the store before iBooks Author was released earlier this year, and that original process remains.
Either way....standard or hybrid - both epub types require using iTunes Producer to interact with the backend and get your ebooks into the store.
FYI, You're in the iBooks Author forum - if this question doesn't involve iBooks Author (meaning you just want to stick with your existing .epub files), you may want to move to one of the other Apple Books forums, instead, thanks.
So my book, "REICHOLD STREET" - which, by the way is a 2012 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner, cannot be sold in the Apple bookstore because I don't own an Apple computer?
Unless I agree to let some aggregator have a portion of the proceeds just to upload the ePub file ... which I am quite capable of doing myself?
Seem a bit pompous on the part of Apple, to me. "Buy my computer product, or go home."
Tell Apple if you'd like the current process to be changed.
Good luck.
My award-winning books were created in ePub format, but on a PC. Can I still upload and sell them on the iBookstore, or MUST I purchase a Mac to do so?
