Putting books in ibooks how to#

You’ll have to decide which service is best for you or you can bypass the aggregators and try to do everything yourself. Other services takes no upfront money but instead take a cut of the profits. They’re convert your eBook to the ePub format for another $19. For an additional $19 they will register your ISBN number. These are firms that have a financial arrangement with Apple and can provide you with a number of services.įor example, Bookbaby charge $49 per book the first year and then $19 per book each year the book is in the store.

Putting books in ibooks how to#

If you don’t know how to get an ISBN number, Apple suggests that you use an Apple-approved aggregator.

An Intel-based Mac running OS 10.5 or better (PC users are SOL).

An idea of where you’ll sell and how much you’ll sell for.

An iTunes account backed up by a credit card.

A US Tax ID (Non US are out of luck for now).

The ability to deliver the book in ePub format.

An ISBN numbers for the book you want to sell.

In order to put your eBook into the iBook store, you need to meet the following requirements: Best of all, you also get the same deal as the app publishers, which mean 70% of the revenue goes to you! You decide how much to charge and which countries to sell into. You don’t need a publisher, distributor or agent. To help stock the iBook store with plenty of titles, Apple has came up a way for you to sell your eBook in their iBook store! You can do this all by yourself. With the launch of the Apple iPad, Apple hopes to do for books what the iPod did for music.