Publish your book with Pages

Publish your volume straight to Apple Books from Pages on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or online at iCloud.com.

With Pages, you can create a book, then publish information technology directly to the store in Apple Books. You lot can customize your book during the publishing process: add a cover, set your price or offering information technology for free, add tags to specify age groups or subjects, set upwardly a pre-club, customize availability past date and state or region, and more. You can likewise update an already submitted book.

Here'southward what you need

 For Pages on your Apple tree device, here'southward what you need:

  • A Mac with macOS High Sierra and Pages seven.three or later
  • An iPhone or iPad with iOS 11 or later on, or an iPad with iPadOS and Pages iv.three or subsequently
  • An iTunes Connect business relationship for Apple Books

For Pages online at iCloud.com, here'south what you lot need:

  • Safari 9.i.three or later, or Google Chrome for your Mac
  • Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for your Windows PC
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

Prepare to publish your book

Here are some things you should practice before you start the process of publishing your book:

  • Use paragraph styles in your Pages certificate, so your book formats correctly when published.
  • Relieve your book in the Pages binder in iCloud Drive. If you lot're not using iCloud Bulldoze, prepare iCloud on all of your devices and turn on iCloud Drive.
  • Become your encompass image ready* or plan to apply the first page as the cover. If yous plan to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, save the image in iCloud Bulldoze.
  • If your volume contains HEVC videos, catechumen the videos before you publish.
  • Review the items in the list on the Submit Your Ebook webpage.

* A cover image must be in PNG or JPEG format, and must exist at to the lowest degree 1400 pixels on its shortest side.

Publish your volume

To publish your book, open up your document in Pages, provide seller and version information, enter book information, preview and upload your book, then finalize your submission.

Open your document in Pages

  1. Open the Pages certificate that you want to publish as a book.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More push, then tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, choose File > Publish to Apple Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools push button, so choose Publish to Apple tree Books.
  3. Tap or click Continue, then sign in to iTunes Connect. If you've never signed in, on Mac click Create iTunes Connect Business relationship. On an iPad, iPhone, or online at iCloud.com, sign upwards for an account.
  4. Tap or click Continue. Beyond this step, whatever changes you make to the Pages certificate won't appear in the published book. If yous need to stop the publishing flow and make changes to the Pages certificate, just shut the publishing window.

Provide seller and version information

Adjacent, choose the seller of the book and the version:

  1. If your iTunes Connect business relationship has more than 1 seller, tap or click the Seller pop-up menu, so choose a seller. All those listed in your iTunes Connect account appear in the menu—choose whatsoever as the seller.
  2. If you're publishing this volume for the first fourth dimension, select "This is a new book." Yous tin can too update a previously submitted book.
  3. Click Keep.

Provide volume information

After you provide seller and version information, y'all can choose a layout type for your volume and enter other information about your book. Not every field is required, but many fields can help readers find your book in the Volume Store. Hither are some tips almost the options on this page:

  • If your Pages certificate is a word-processing document, choose a layout for your volume. Choose Reflowable for a volume that has mostly text, like a novel. In a Reflowable layout, content reflows to accommodate unlike devices and orientations, and readers tin can adjust the font size. Choose Fixed for image-heavy or multi-cavalcade documents.
  • To display two-page spreads in a fixed layout book, choose Volume Spread > 2 Pages.
  • To add a subtitle or a series name, in the Title section click the Add button. If you're not using a subtitle or series name, click the Remove button to remove the field.
  • To add additional roles such as Editor, Illustrated by, Narrated past, and more, tap or click the Add together button in the Author section, click the Author popular-upwardly menu, choose a role, and then enter a proper noun.
  • To aid readers notice your volume, cull a subject field category that best describes the content of your volume. You tin add additional categories, merely Apple Books uses the first three categories you chose.
  • If your book is for minors, set an interest age. Or tap or click the Involvement Age pop-up bill of fare and choose 1 of the schoolhouse grade options:
    • To set a minimum course, set the outset selection just.
    • To set a maximum grade, set the second option only.
    • To set a course range, set both options.
    • To fix a specific grade, set both options to the aforementioned grade.
  • If your volume is appropriate for adults only or is extremely violent, click the Contains Explicit Content pop-upward carte and choose Yeah.
  • To set up a pre-lodge, tap or click the Pre-Gild pop-up bill of fare, and so choose Yes. To upload your book now, click the Upload Book pop-up menu and cull Aye. After you upload your book, you'll add pricing, territory data, and pre-lodge details in iTunes Connect.*

When yous're ready, click Continue. If errors appear, enter the required information, then click Continue again.

* Your book won't exist available in the Volume Store until you add this information in iTunes Connect afterward uploading your book.

Preview and upload your book

After yous enter your book information and click Continue, you can preview the book and sample EPUB files. The preview EPUB files open in the Books app.

If you're publishing from Pages online at iCloud.com, the files download to the default download location on your computer.

When you're satisfied with your sample, click Upload.

Finalize your submission

Afterward your volume successfully uploads to Apple Books, click Go to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add pricing and territory information. If you prepare a pre-order, add pre-order details.

While Apple Books reviews your submission, you'll receive status updates via email. You lot can also bank check your book's review status at any time in the My Books section of your iTunes Connect business relationship.

Update a previously submitted book

Open up the document and choose Publish to Apple Books. In the Seller screen, choose the update option. If your previously published book had a version number, create a new version number for the book. Add "what's new" text that describes what's changed in the new version—this will appear with your volume in the Book Shop.

In the other publishing windows, virtually data will be pre-filled, though you tin can alter most of the metadata or other options. For instance, yous can specify a new page range for your sample, add a new category for your book, and more.

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