![]() And even these don’t need to be set in stone - you may change them prior to the release, as well as the release date itself. ![]() All that’s required is basic metadata: title, author, book description, etc. “iBooks now allows providers the ability to upload pre-orders up to a year before a book’s release date without needing any finished assets (ie. But it comes directly from an iBooks source.) Here’s the information on how this works, directly from Apple: (Note that this information is not yet available anywhere on Apple’s sites or in their iBooks FAQs or instructions. You can distribute to iBooks on your own or through an aggregator (kind of a distributor) like Smashwords.Īlthough some aggregators have been offering this service, it’s now available to any author who goes the direct upload route. they don’t favor books from one source over another).īasically, this allows you to set up a book on iBooks for pre-order even if you don’t have a book cover or interior file, up to a year before your publication date. Apple is officially “agnostic” about how you get your books onto their platform (i.e. That’s one of the reasons I was excited to learn yesterday that Apple has expanded a powerful feature on iBooks so that all authors who upload directly to Apple can use it. ![]() Savvy authors know that having their ebooks available on multiple platforms will work to their advantage in wider distribution and more sales. Because Apple’s iBooks platform has very little marketing behind it, you may not know that it is the second-largest ebook retailer in the world, and a very robust second at that.
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